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 "cells": [
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "fade033f",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "可以在[Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/98697/9781098155438) 和\n",
    "[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/_/dp/1098155432?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&_encoding=UTF8&tag=oreilly20-20&_encoding=UTF8&tag=greenteapre01-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e2a529f94920295d27ec8a06e757dc7c&camp=1789&creative=9325)获取纸制版和电子版的*Think Python 3e*."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 1,
   "id": "361d390a",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from os.path import basename, exists\n",
    "\n",
    "def download(url):\n",
    "    filename = basename(url)\n",
    "    if not exists(filename):\n",
    "        from urllib.request import urlretrieve\n",
    "\n",
    "        local, _ = urlretrieve(url, filename)\n",
    "        print(\"Downloaded \" + str(local))\n",
    "    return filename\n",
    "\n",
    "download('https://gitee.com/regentsai/Think_Python_3e_CN/blob/master/thinkpython.py');\n",
    "download('https://gitee.com/regentsai/Think_Python_3e_CN/blob/master/diagram.py');\n",
    "\n",
    "import thinkpython"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "9d97603b",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# 第8章：字符串和正则表达式\n",
    "\n",
    "字符串不像整数，浮点数或布尔值。字符串是一个**序列sequence**，包含多个值，这些值按特定顺序排列。\n",
    "\n",
    "本章我们将看到如何获取组成字符串的值，也将使用处理字符串的函数。\n",
    "\n",
    "我们也将使用正则表达式，这是寻找字符串中模式并进行替换的强大工具。\n",
    "\n",
    "作为练习，你将有机会应用这些工具，解决单词游戏Wordle。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1280dd83",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 字符串是序列\n",
    "\n",
    "字符串是字符的序列。**字符character**可以是一个字母，数字，标点符号或者空白符。\n",
    "\n",
    "你可以使用方括号运算符选中字符串中的字符。以下示例语句选择`fruit`的第1个字符，并赋值给变量`letter`："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 2,
   "id": "9b53c1fe",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "fruit = 'banana'\n",
    "letter = fruit[1]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "a307e429",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "方括号中的表达式是**索引index**，因为它*指明*了选中的是序列中的哪个字符。但选中的可能不是你预期的结果。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 3,
   "id": "2cb1d58c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'a'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 3,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "letter"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "57c13319",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "索引`1`对应的字母实际是字符串中的第2个字母。索引是字符串开始位置的偏移量，所以第1个字母的偏移量为`0`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "id": "4ce1eb16",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'b'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 4,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[0]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "57d8e54c",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "你可以认为`'b'`是`'banana'`的第0位字母。方括号中的索引可以是变量。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 5,
   "id": "11201ba9",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'a'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 5,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "i = 1\n",
    "fruit[i]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "9630e2e7",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "索引也可以是包含变量和运算符的表达式。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 6,
   "id": "fc4383d0",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 6,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[i+1]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "939b602d",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "但索引的值必须是整数，否则你将得到`TypeError`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 7,
   "id": "aec20975",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "ename": "TypeError",
     "evalue": "string indices must be integers, not 'float'",
     "output_type": "error",
     "traceback": [
      "\u001b[0;31mTypeError\u001b[0m\u001b[0;31m:\u001b[0m string indices must be integers, not 'float'\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "%%expect TypeError\n",
    "\n",
    "fruit[1.5]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "3f0f7e3a",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "与我们在第1章看到的一样，我们可以使用内建函数`len`获得字符串的长度。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 8,
   "id": "796ce317",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "6"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 8,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "n = len(fruit)\n",
    "n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "29013c47",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "要获得字符串的最后一个字母，你可能会这样写，将字符串的长度作为索引："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 9,
   "id": "3ccb4a64",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "ename": "IndexError",
     "evalue": "string index out of range",
     "output_type": "error",
     "traceback": [
      "\u001b[0;31mIndexError\u001b[0m\u001b[0;31m:\u001b[0m string index out of range\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "%%expect IndexError\n",
    "\n",
    "fruit[n]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "b87e09bd",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "这会导致`IndexError`，因为`'banana'`中没有字母的索引为6。因为我们从`0`开始数，各个字母的编号从`0`到`5`。要获得最后一个字符，你需要用索引`n-1`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 10,
   "id": "2cf99de6",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'a'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 10,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[n-1]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "3c79dcec",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "有一个更简单的方式，要获得最后一个字符，你可以用负数索引，从字符结尾开始数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 11,
   "id": "3dedf6fa",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'a'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 11,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[-1]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "5677b727",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "索引`-1`选择最后一个字符，`-2`选择最后第2个字符，以此类推。\n",
    "\n",
    "译注：想象字符串首尾相连，第1个字符向左偏移1位，即可获得最后1个字符，因此最后一个字符的偏移量和索引为`-1`，依此类推。这种索引编号方式源于其他语言对整数的编码方式。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "8392a12a",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 字符串切片\n",
    "\n",
    "字符串的片段叫作**切片slice**。选择切片与选择字符类似。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 12,
   "id": "386b9df2",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'ban'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 12,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit = 'banana'\n",
    "fruit[0:3]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "5cc12531",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "运算符`[n:m]`返回从`n`到`m`个字符的部分字符串，包括第`n`个字符，不包括第`m`个字符。\n",
    "\n",
    "这种行为有点反直觉，但把索引想象成字符*之间*的点可能会有所帮助："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 13,
   "id": "05f9743d",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from diagram import make_binding, Element, Value\n",
    "\n",
    "binding = make_binding(\"fruit\", ' b a n a n a ')\n",
    "elements = [Element(Value(i), None) for i in range(7)]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 14,
   "id": "b09d8356",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
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      "text/plain": [
       "<Figure size 135x54 with 1 Axes>"
      ]
     },
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "display_data"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
    "from diagram import diagram, adjust\n",
    "from matplotlib.transforms import Bbox\n",
    "\n",
    "width, height, x, y = [1.35, 0.54, 0.23, 0.39]\n",
    "\n",
    "ax = diagram(width, height)\n",
    "bbox = binding.draw(ax, x, y)\n",
    "bboxes = [bbox]\n",
    "\n",
    "def draw_elts(x, y, elements):\n",
    "    for elt in elements:\n",
    "        bbox = elt.draw(ax, x, y, draw_value=False)\n",
    "        bboxes.append(bbox)\n",
    "\n",
    "        x1 = (bbox.xmin + bbox.xmax) / 2\n",
    "        y1 = bbox.ymax + 0.02\n",
    "        y2 = y1 + 0.14\n",
    "        handle = plt.plot([x1, x1], [y1, y2], ':', lw=0.5, color='gray')\n",
    "        x += 0.105\n",
    "    \n",
    "draw_elts(x + 0.48, y - 0.25, elements)\n",
    "bbox = Bbox.union(bboxes)\n",
    "# adjust(x, y, bbox)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c391abbf",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "例如切片`[3:6]`选中`ana`，因此`6`是切片中合法的一部分，但在索引中是不合法的。\n",
    "\n",
    "译注:左闭右开的切片方式能够方便地计算(未)选中部分的长度,比如`[0:3]`和`[3:6]`切片的字符串长度均至多为3.**至多**是因为Python会自动处理切片中索引越界的情况.\n",
    "\n",
    "如果你忽略第1个索引，切片从字符串的开头开始。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 15,
   "id": "00592313",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'ban'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 15,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[:3]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1bd7dcb1",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "如果你忽略第2个索引，切片会到达字符串的结尾："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 18,
   "id": "01684797",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'nana'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 18,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[2:]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "4701123b",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "如果第1个索引大于等于第2个索引，获得的结果是**空字符串empty string**，用两个引号表示："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 17,
   "id": "c7551ded",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "''"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 17,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[3:3]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "d12735ab",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "空字符串不包含字符，长度为0。\n",
    "\n",
    "你觉得`fruit[:]`代表的含义是什么？猜测之后执行下面的单元格。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 19,
   "id": "b5c5ce3e",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'banana'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 19,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "fruit[:]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "568c47d6",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "译注：python序列支持更多切片方式，提供优雅的切片和索引越界处理方案。尝试`fruit[:10]`，`fruit[:-1]`和`fruit[::-1]`的结果。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "918d3dd0",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 字符串是不可变的\n",
    "\n",
    "想要改变字符串的一个字符，在赋值语句的左边使用`[]`运算符很有诱惑："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 20,
   "id": "69ccd380",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "ename": "TypeError",
     "evalue": "'str' object does not support item assignment",
     "output_type": "error",
     "traceback": [
      "\u001b[0;31mTypeError\u001b[0m\u001b[0;31m:\u001b[0m 'str' object does not support item assignment\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "%%expect TypeError\n",
    "\n",
    "greeting = 'Hello, world!'\n",
    "greeting[0] = 'J'"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "df3dd7d1",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "结果导致`TypeError`。在错误信息中，“object”对象是该字符串，“item”元素是我们想要赋值的字符。\n",
    "\n",
    "目前，**对象object**与值等同，但我们稍后会完善这个定义。\n",
    "\n",
    "产生这个错误的原因在于，字符串是**不可变的immutable**，你不能修改现存的字符串。最好的方式是创建一个新字符串。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 21,
   "id": "280d27a1",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Jello, world!'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 21,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "new_greeting = 'J' + greeting[1:]\n",
    "new_greeting"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "2848546f",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "这个例子将新的字母和`greeting`字符串的切片进行拼接。这对原始字符串没有影响。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 22,
   "id": "8fa4a4cf",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Hello, world!'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 22,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "greeting"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "49e4da57",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 比较字符串\n",
    "\n",
    "字符串支持关系运算符。我们可以使用`==`运算符比较两个字符串是否相等。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 23,
   "id": "b754d462",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "All right, banana.\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "word = 'banana'\n",
    "\n",
    "if word == 'banana':\n",
    "    print('All right, banana.')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "e9be6097",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "其他关系运算符对于将单词按字母表顺序排序很有用："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 24,
   "id": "44374eb8",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def compare_word(word):\n",
    "    if word < 'banana':\n",
    "        print(word, '在banana之前。')\n",
    "    elif word > 'banana':\n",
    "        print(word, '在banana之后。')\n",
    "    else:\n",
    "        print('All right, banana.')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 25,
   "id": "a46f7035",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "apple 在banana之前。\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "compare_word('apple')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "b66f449a",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Python比较大小写字母的方式与人们常做的不同。所有大写字母比小写字母“小”。\n",
    "\n",
    "译注：在ASCII码表中，大写英文字母的编号小于小写字母。Python默认的UTF-8编码格式继承了该顺序，汉字按照康熙字典的偏旁部首和笔画数排序。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 26,
   "id": "a691f9e2",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "Pineapple 在banana之前。\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "compare_word('Pineapple')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "f9b916c9",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "要解决这个问题，我们可以将字符串转化为标准模式，例如在比较之前将所有字母都转化为小写。\n",
    "\n",
    "如果你想免于手持菠萝的人的伤害，记住这一点。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "531069f1",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 字符串的方法\n",
    "\n",
    "字符串提供各种有用的方法。方法与函数相同，接受参数，返回值，但语法不同。\n",
    "\n",
    "例如，方法`upper`接受字符串，返回大写字母对应的字符串。调用方法不使用函数的语法`upper(word)`，而是采用`word.upper()`语法。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 27,
   "id": "fa6140a6",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'BANANA'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 27,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "word = 'banana'\n",
    "new_word = word.upper()\n",
    "new_word"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1ac41744",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "这个例子使用点运算符，指名要应用方法的字符串名字`word`，以及方法的名字`upper`。空圆括号表示这个方法不接受其他参数。\n",
    "\n",
    "方法的调用称为**调用invocation**，在这个例子里面，我们说我们在`word`上调用`upper`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "2a13d4ef",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "## 写入文件\n",
    "\n",
    "字符串的运算符和方法对于读写文本文件很有用。例如我们将处理小说*德古拉Dracula*，它由Bram Stoker编写，可从古登堡项目获取(<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345>)。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 28,
   "id": "e3f1dc18",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import os\n",
    "\n",
    "if not os.path.exists('pg345.txt'):\n",
    "    !wget https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/345/pg345.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "963dda79",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "我已经下载了该小说的文本文件，文件名为`pg345.txt`，我们可以像这样读取："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 29,
   "id": "bd2d5175",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "reader = open('pg345.txt')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "b5d99e8c",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "除了小说的文本，这个文件还在开头章节介绍书籍的信息，最后章节介绍协议的信息。在处理文本之前，我们可以移除额外的内容，它们以`'***'`开始的字符串分隔。\n",
    "\n",
    "接下来的函数接受一行字符串，检查字符串是否是这种特殊行。它使用`startswith`方法，检查字符串是否以给定字符串开始。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 30,
   "id": "b9c9318c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def is_special_line(line):\n",
    "    return line.startswith('*** ')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "2efdfe35",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "我们可以使用这个函数遍历文件中的所有行，只打印特殊行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 31,
   "id": "a9417d4c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRACULA ***\n",
      "*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRACULA ***\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "for line in reader:\n",
    "    if is_special_line(line):\n",
    "        print(line.strip())"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "07fb5992",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "现在让我们创建新文件`pg345_cleaned.txt`，只包含这本书的内容。为了再次遍历这本书，我们必须重新打开并读取。此外，要写入新的文件，我们可以打开新文件。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 34,
   "id": "f2336825",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "reader = open('pg345.txt')\n",
    "writer = open('pg345_cleaned.txt', 'w')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "96d881aa",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "`open`接受可选的参数，指定读写模式，在这个例子里，`'w'`表示我们打开这个文件是为了写入字符串。\n",
    "\n",
    "如果文件不存在，将创建新文件；如果已经存在，旧文件中的所有内容将被替换。\n",
    "\n",
    "作为第1步，我们将遍历文件，直到找到第1个特殊行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 35,
   "id": "d1b286ee",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "for line in reader:\n",
    "    if is_special_line(line):\n",
    "        break"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1989d5a1",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "`break`语句跳出循环过程，导致循环在到达文件结尾之前就立刻终止。\n",
    "\n",
    "当循环结束时，`line`包含让条件为真的特殊行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 36,
   "id": "b4ecf365",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRACULA ***\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 36,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "line"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "9f28c3b4",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "由于`reader`文件对象保留了文件的读写位置，我们可以使用第2个循环，从离开的位置继续。\n",
    "\n",
    "以下循环读取剩余文件，一次一行。当找到表示终止的特殊行时，跳出循环，否则将文本写入输出文件。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 37,
   "id": "a99dc11c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "for line in reader:\n",
    "    if is_special_line(line):\n",
    "        break\n",
    "    writer.write(line)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c07032a4",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "当这个循环退出时，`line`包含第2个特殊行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 38,
   "id": "dfd6b264",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRACULA ***\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 38,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "line"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "0c30b41c",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "此时，`reader`与`writer`文件对象依然打开，我们可以继续从`reader`读取文本，或者将文本写入`writer`。要表明我们已经结束了操作，我们可以调用两个对象的`close`方法。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 39,
   "id": "4eda555c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "reader.close()\n",
    "writer.close()"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "d5084cdc",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "要检查这个过程是否成功，我们可以读取刚才创建的新文件中的前几行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 40,
   "id": "5e1e8c74",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "DRACULA\n",
      "_by_\n",
      "Bram Stoker\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "    line = line.strip()\n",
    "    if len(line) > 0:\n",
    "        print(line)\n",
    "    if line.endswith('Stoker'):\n",
    "        break"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "34c93df3",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "`endswidth`方法检查字符串是否以给定字符串结尾。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "fcdb4bbf",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 查找和替换\n",
    "\n",
    "在*Dracula*的冰岛语翻译版本中，有一个角色的名字从\"Jonathan\"修改为\"Thomas\"。要在英文版本中完成这个修改，我们可以遍历全书，使用`replace`方法将一个名字替换为另一个，并将结果写入新文件。\n",
    "\n",
    "我们将首先计算清洗版本文件的行数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 41,
   "id": "63ebaafb",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "15477"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 41,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "total = 0\n",
    "for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "    total += 1\n",
    "    \n",
    "total"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "8ba9b9ca",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "要查看一行是否包含\"Jonathan\"，我们可以使用`in`运算符。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 42,
   "id": "9973e6e8",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "199"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 42,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "total = 0\n",
    "for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "    if 'Jonathan' in line:\n",
    "        total += 1\n",
    "\n",
    "total"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "27805245",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "包含该名字的行数有199行，但实际上不一定与出现的次数一致，因为一行可以出现多次名字。要获得总数，我们可以使用`count`方法，它将返回一个字符串中给定字符序列出现的次数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 43,
   "id": "02e06ff1",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "200"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 43,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "total = 0\n",
    "for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "    total += line.count('Jonathan')\n",
    "\n",
    "total"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "68026797",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "现在我们可以将`'Jonathan'`替换为`'Thomas'`："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 44,
   "id": "1450e82c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "writer = open('pg345_replaced.txt', 'w')\n",
    "\n",
    "for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "    line = line.replace('Jonathan', 'Thomas')\n",
    "    writer.write(line)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "57ba56f3",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "结果保存在替换版本的`pg345_replaced.txt`文件中，Jonathan被叫作Thomas。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 45,
   "id": "a57b64c6",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "201"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 45,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "total = 0\n",
    "for line in open('pg345_replaced.txt'):\n",
    "    total += line.count('Thomas')\n",
    "\n",
    "total"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "cc9af187",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 正则表达式\n",
    "\n",
    "如果我们明确知道要查找的字符序列，我们可以使用`in`运算符查找，用`relpace`方法替换。但还有另外一个工具：**正则表达式regular expression**，可以执行这些操作，以及更多功能。\n",
    "\n",
    "为了演示，我将从一个简单的例子开始，然后逐渐扩展。假设我们要找到包含特定单词的所有行。让我们查找本书的主角Dracula伯爵出现的地方。以下是提及他的一行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 46,
   "id": "a6069027",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "text = \"I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.\""
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "d4fd6d11",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "而以下是我们用来搜索的**模式pattern**。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 48,
   "id": "e3c19abe",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "pattern = 'Dracula'"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "268f647c",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "`re`模块提供与正则表达式相关的函数。我们可以导入它，使用`search`函数检查模式是否出现在文本中。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 49,
   "id": "db588abb",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "<re.Match object; span=(5, 12), match='Dracula'>"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 49,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import re\n",
    "\n",
    "result = re.search(pattern, text)\n",
    "result"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "e17f6731",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "如果模式出现在文本中，`search`返回`Match`对象，包含搜索的结果。它还拥有一个变量`string`，包含被搜索的文本。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 50,
   "id": "924524a6",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house.'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 50,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result.string"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "a8eab0f6",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "`Match`对象也提供方法`group`，返回匹配模式的文本片段。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 51,
   "id": "c72b860c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Dracula'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 51,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result.group()"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "b6962a7d",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "它还提供方法`span`，返回模式在文本中开始和结束的索引。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 52,
   "id": "7c2f556c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "(5, 12)"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 52,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result.span()"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "8f1e5261",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "如果模式没有出现在文本中，`search`的返回值是`None`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 53,
   "id": "d5242ef6",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "None\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result = re.search('Count', text)\n",
    "print(result)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "d5ed33ff",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "所以我们可以通过检查结果是否为`None`来检查搜索是否成功。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 54,
   "id": "18c09b63",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "True"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 54,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result == None"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "a08e38f6",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "把这些代码集中在一起，以下是遍历书中的所有行，直到找到与模式匹配的行，返回`Match`对象。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 55,
   "id": "fedb7d95",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def find_first(pattern):\n",
    "    for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "        result = re.search(pattern, line)\n",
    "        if result != None:\n",
    "            return result"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "96570515",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "我们可以使用这个函数找到第1次提到某个角色的行。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 56,
   "id": "d7cbe2c2",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'CHAPTER I. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 56,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result = find_first('Harker')\n",
    "result.string"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "3f687fdc",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "在这个例子里，我们不必使用正则表达式，使用`in`运算符会简单的多。但正则表达式可以做`in`运算符做不了的事。\n",
    "\n",
    "例如，如果模式中包含竖线符`'|'`，模式就可以匹配左边或者右边的字符序列。假设我们想要找到第1次提及Mina Murray的位置，但不确定出现的是姓还是名。我们可以使用以下模式，匹配其中任意一个。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 57,
   "id": "96c64f83",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'CHAPTER V. Letters—Lucy and Mina\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 57,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "pattern = 'Mina|Murray'\n",
    "result = find_first(pattern)\n",
    "result.string"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "8bea66a6",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "我们可以使用类似的模式，通过姓或名查找某个角色出现的次数。以下是遍历书中的所有行，计算匹配给定模式的行数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 58,
   "id": "d0d2e926",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def count_matches(pattern):\n",
    "    count = 0\n",
    "    for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "        result = re.search(pattern, line)\n",
    "        if result != None:\n",
    "            count += 1\n",
    "    return count"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "0e753a5b",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "现在让我们看看Mina出现了多少次。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 59,
   "id": "d7e8c5b4",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "229"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 59,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "count_matches('Mina|Murray')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "780c9fab",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "特殊字符`'^'`匹配字符串的开端，所以我们可以寻找以给定模式开始的行。\n",
    "\n",
    "译注：正则表达式中表示特殊功能的字符称为元字符。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 60,
   "id": "be63c5b0",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Dracula, jumping to his feet, said:--\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 60,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result = find_first('^Dracula')\n",
    "result.string"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "332bad2e",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "特殊字符`'$'`匹配字符串的结尾，所以我们可以寻找以给定模式结束的行（忽略结尾的换行符）。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 61,
   "id": "37595ac5",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'by five o’clock, we must start off; for it won’t do to leave Mrs. Harker\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 61,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result = find_first('Harker$')\n",
    "result.string"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "d4b22b6e",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 字符串替换\n",
    "\n",
    "Bram Stoker生于冰岛，当1897年出版*Dracula*时，他生活在英国。所以我们可以认为他会使用英式拼写方式，例如\"centre\"和\"colour\"。我们可以使用以下模式，匹配“centre”或者美式拼写“center”。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 62,
   "id": "18237bea",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "pattern = 'cent(er|re)'"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "35abfd7d",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "在这个模式中，括号包围了竖线符生效的范围。所以这个模式匹配以`'cent'`开始，`'er'`或`'re'`结束的字符序列。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 63,
   "id": "ce65805f",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 63,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result = find_first(pattern)\n",
    "result.string"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "e5703c18",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "与预期一致，作者使用英式拼写。\n",
    "\n",
    "我们也可以检查作者是否使用了英式拼写\"colour\"。下面的模式使用特殊字符`'?'`，表明问号前的一个字符是可有可无的。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 64,
   "id": "af770664",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "pattern = 'colou?r'"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "beed9a7b",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "这个模式匹配带`'u'`的\"colour\"或者不带`'u'`的\"color\"。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 65,
   "id": "ed67bde7",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 65,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "result = find_first(pattern)\n",
    "line = result.string\n",
    "line"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1a31f179",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "同样，与预期一致，作者使用英式拼写。\n",
    "\n",
    "现在假定我们想要生成使用美式拼写的小说版本。我们可以使用`re`模块中的`sub`函数，进行**字符串替换 \n",
    "string substitution**。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 66,
   "id": "52dd938c",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of colored stuff\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 66,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "re.sub(pattern, 'color', line)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "04a80fc6",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "第1个参数是我们想要寻找和替换的模式，第2个参数是想要用于替换的字符串，第3个是想要搜索的字符串。在结果中，你可以看到\"colour\"被替换为\"color\"。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 67,
   "id": "d2e309a2",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 使用这个函数作为正则表达式的示例\n",
    "\n",
    "def all_matches(pattern):\n",
    "    for line in open('pg345_cleaned.txt'):\n",
    "        result = re.search(pattern, line)\n",
    "        if result:\n",
    "            print(line.strip())"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 68,
   "id": "3d8b2a9f",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "DRACULA\n",
      "Bram Stoker\n",
      "[Illustration: colophon]\n",
      "NEW YORK\n",
      "GROSSET & DUNLAP\n",
      "_Publishers_\n",
      "Copyright, 1897, in the United States of America, according\n",
      "to Act of Congress, by Bram Stoker\n",
      "[_All rights reserved._]\n",
      "PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES\n",
      "AT\n",
      "THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.\n",
      "TO\n",
      "MY DEAR FRIEND\n",
      "HOMMY-BEG\n",
      "Contents\n",
      "CHAPTER I. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER II. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER III. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER IV. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER V. Letters—Lucy and Mina\n",
      "CHAPTER VI. Mina Murray’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER VII. Cutting from “The Dailygraph,” 8 August\n",
      "CHAPTER VIII. Mina Murray’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER IX. Mina Murray’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER X. Mina Murray’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER XI. Lucy Westenra’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XII. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XIII. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XIV. Mina Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER XV. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XVI. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XVII. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XVIII. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XIX. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER XX. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER XXI. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XXII. Jonathan Harker’s Journal\n",
      "CHAPTER XXIII. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XXIV. Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, spoken by Van Helsing\n",
      "CHAPTER XXV. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XXVI. Dr. Seward’s Diary\n",
      "CHAPTER XXVII. Mina Harker’s Journal\n",
      "How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in\n",
      "DRACULA\n",
      "CHAPTER I\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL\n",
      "(_Kept in shorthand._)\n",
      "_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\n",
      "Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\n",
      "hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\n",
      "impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the\n",
      "East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is\n",
      "here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish\n",
      "We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh.\n",
      "Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or\n",
      "very good but thirsty. (_Mem._, get recipe for Mina.) I asked the\n",
      "Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I\n",
      "Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the\n",
      "British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library\n",
      "regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the\n",
      "Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian\n",
      "mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was\n",
      "Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare\n",
      "with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post\n",
      "town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter\n",
      "travels with Mina.\n",
      "In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities:\n",
      "Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the\n",
      "descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the\n",
      "East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended\n",
      "from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered\n",
      "the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I\n",
      "horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of\n",
      "imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (_Mem._, I\n",
      "must ask the Count all about them.)\n",
      "very excellent dish, which they call “impletata.” (_Mem._, get recipe\n",
      "more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?\n",
      "All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of\n",
      "saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats\n",
      "Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy\n",
      "set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands. They are,\n",
      "It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a\n",
      "Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina--it has had a very stormy\n",
      "Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I\n",
      "said, “The Herr Englishman?” “Yes,” I said, “Jonathan Harker.” She\n",
      "“My Friend.--Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting\n",
      "start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo\n",
      "Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust\n",
      "that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you\n",
      "“Your friend,\n",
      "“DRACULA.”\n",
      "_4 May._--I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count,\n",
      "pretended that he could not understand my German. This could not be\n",
      "was all he knew. When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could\n",
      "Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a\n",
      "“Must you go? Oh! young Herr, must you go?” She was in such an excited\n",
      "state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and\n",
      "“Do you know what day it is?” I answered that it was the fourth of May.\n",
      "She shook her head as she said again:\n",
      "“Oh, yes! I know that! I know that, but do you know what day it is?” On\n",
      "“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that to-night, when\n",
      "full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?”\n",
      "She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her, but\n",
      "did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been\n",
      "rosary round my neck, and said, “For your mother’s sake,” and went out\n",
      "ever reach Mina before I do, let it bring my good-bye. Here comes the\n",
      "_5 May. The Castle._--The grey of the morning has passed, and the sun is\n",
      "left Bistritz, let me put down my dinner exactly. I dined on what they\n",
      "style of the London cat’s meat! The wine was Golden Mediasch, which\n",
      "When I got on the coach the driver had not taken his seat, and I saw him\n",
      "cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”--Satan, “pokol”--hell,\n",
      "thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is\n",
      "either were-wolf or vampire. (_Mem._, I must ask the Count about these\n",
      "When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time\n",
      "first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a\n",
      "green hills of what they call here the “Mittel Land” ran the road,\n",
      "time in reaching Borgo Prund. I was told that this road is in summertime\n",
      "the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept\n",
      "in too good order. Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the\n",
      "Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops,\n",
      "Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes\n",
      "of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right\n",
      "“Look! Isten szek!”--“God’s seat!”--and he crossed himself reverently.\n",
      "As we wound on our endless way, and the sun sank lower and lower behind\n",
      "we passed Cszeks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed\n",
      "peasants, the Cszeks with their white, and the Slovaks with their\n",
      "Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of\n",
      "Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys. Sometimes the\n",
      "but the driver would not hear of it. “No, no,” he said; “you must not\n",
      "before you go to sleep.” The only stop he would make was a moment’s\n",
      "When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the\n",
      "side and to frown down upon us; we were entering on the Borgo Pass. One\n",
      "Bistritz--the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye.\n",
      "Then, as we flew along, the driver leaned forward, and on each side the\n",
      "some little time; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on\n",
      "which was to take me to the Count. Each moment I expected to see the\n",
      "The passengers drew back with a sigh of gladness, which seemed to mock\n",
      "thought it was “An hour less than the time.” Then turning to me, he said\n",
      "in German worse than my own:--\n",
      "“There is no carriage here. The Herr is not expected after all. He will\n",
      "now come on to Bukovina, and return to-morrow or the next day; better\n",
      "the next day.” Whilst he was speaking the horses began to neigh and\n",
      "“You are early to-night, my friend.” The man stammered in reply:--\n",
      "“The English Herr was in a hurry,” to which the stranger replied:--\n",
      "“That is why, I suppose, you wished him to go on to Bukovina. You cannot\n",
      "deceive me, my friend; I know too much, and my horses are swift.” As he\n",
      "companions whispered to another the line from Burger’s “Lenore”:--\n",
      "“Denn die Todten reiten schnell”--\n",
      "(“For the dead travel fast.”)\n",
      "The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a\n",
      "putting out his two fingers and crossing himself. “Give me the Herr’s\n",
      "swept into the darkness of the Pass. As I looked back I saw the steam\n",
      "on their way to Bukovina. As they sank into the darkness I felt a\n",
      "excellent German:--\n",
      "“The night is chill, mein Herr, and my master the Count bade me take all\n",
      "Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road--a\n",
      "now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed\n",
      "time, after going to the far side of the Pass, he suddenly turned down a\n",
      "Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over the\n",
      "It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall,\n",
      "Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The\n",
      "Once the flame appeared so near the road, that even in the darkness\n",
      "At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he\n",
      "For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man\n",
      "All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had\n",
      "When I could see again the driver was climbing into the calèche, and the\n",
      "CHAPTER II\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_\n",
      "_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\n",
      "When the calèche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out his hand\n",
      "What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked? Was this a\n",
      "explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner? Solicitor’s\n",
      "clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor--for just before leaving\n",
      "London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a\n",
      "and among the Carpathians. All I could do now was to be patient, and to\n",
      "Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching\n",
      "Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white\n",
      "gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation:--\n",
      "“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” He made no\n",
      "“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the\n",
      "happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to\n",
      "“Count Dracula?” He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:--\n",
      "“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in;\n",
      "the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.” As he was\n",
      "“Nay, sir, you are my guest. It is late, and my people are not\n",
      "available. Let me see to your comfort myself.” He insisted on carrying\n",
      "The Count halted, putting down my bags, closed the door, and crossing\n",
      "fresh--which sent a hollow roar up the wide chimney. The Count himself\n",
      "“You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your\n",
      "The light and warmth and the Count’s courteous welcome seemed to have\n",
      "I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me.\n",
      "He opened it and read it gravely; then, with a charming smile, he handed\n",
      "The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I\n",
      "and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was\n",
      "my supper. During the time I was eating it the Count asked me many\n",
      "By this time I had finished my supper, and by my host’s desire had drawn\n",
      "His face was a strong--a very strong--aquiline, with high bridge of the\n",
      "Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees\n",
      "point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not\n",
      "not conceal. The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a\n",
      "down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes\n",
      "“Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make!”\n",
      "Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he\n",
      "“Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the\n",
      "hunter.” Then he rose and said:--\n",
      "“But you must be tired. Your bedroom is all ready, and to-morrow you\n",
      "so sleep well and dream well!” With a courteous bow, he opened for me\n",
      "_7 May._--It is again early morning, but I have rested and enjoyed the\n",
      "There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house, considering the\n",
      "The curtains and upholstery of the chairs and sofas and the hangings of\n",
      "though in excellent order. I saw something like them in Hampton Court,\n",
      "Some time after I had finished my meal--I do not know whether to call it\n",
      "the castle until I had asked the Count’s permission. There was\n",
      "In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English\n",
      "newspapers. A table in the centre was littered with English magazines\n",
      "economy, botany, geology, law--all relating to England and English life\n",
      "London Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the\n",
      "Army and Navy Lists, and--it somehow gladdened my heart to see it--the\n",
      "Law List.\n",
      "Whilst I was looking at the books, the door opened, and the Count\n",
      "since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours\n",
      "of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to\n",
      "your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of\n",
      "To you, my friend, I look that I know it to speak.”\n",
      "“But, Count,” I said, “you know and speak English thoroughly!” He bowed\n",
      "“Indeed,” I said, “you speak excellently.”\n",
      "“Not so,” he answered. “Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your\n",
      "London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That is not\n",
      "speaking if he hear my words, ‘Ha, ha! a stranger!’ I have been so long\n",
      "be master of me. You come to me not alone as agent of my friend Peter\n",
      "Hawkins, of Exeter, to tell me all about my new estate in London. You\n",
      "learn the English intonation; and I would that you tell me when I make\n",
      "Of course I said all I could about being willing, and asked if I might\n",
      "come into that room when I chose. He answered: “Yes, certainly,” and\n",
      "“You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are\n",
      "“We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are\n",
      "This led to much conversation; and as it was evident that he wanted to\n",
      "Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by\n",
      "where treasure has been concealed. “That treasure has been hidden,” he\n",
      "Wallachian, the Saxon, and the Turk. Why, there is hardly a foot of soil\n",
      "Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out\n",
      "“But how,” said I, “can it have remained so long undiscovered, when\n",
      "The Count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long,\n",
      "“Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool! Those flames only\n",
      "“There you are right,” I said. “I know no more than the dead where even\n",
      "to look for them.” Then we drifted into other matters.\n",
      "“Come,” he said at last, “tell me of London and of the house which you\n",
      "have procured for me.” With an apology for my remissness, I went into my\n",
      "in the study or library, and I found the Count lying on the sofa,\n",
      "reading, of all things in the world, an English Bradshaw’s Guide. When I\n",
      "“Well, but, my friend, is it not needful that I should? When I go there\n",
      "I shall be all alone, and my friend Harker Jonathan--nay, pardon me, I\n",
      "Jonathan Harker will not be by my side to correct and aid me. He will be\n",
      "in Exeter, miles away, probably working at papers of the law with my\n",
      "other friend, Peter Hawkins. So!”\n",
      "We went thoroughly into the business of the purchase of the estate at\n",
      "Purfleet. When I had told him the facts and got his signature to the\n",
      "Mr. Hawkins, he began to ask me how I had come across so suitable a\n",
      "“At Purfleet, on a by-road, I came across just such a place as seemed to\n",
      "“The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old _Quatre\n",
      "Face_, as the house is four-sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of\n",
      "When I had finished, he said:--\n",
      "also that there is a chapel of old times. We Transylvanian nobles love\n",
      "be alone with my thoughts when I may.” Somehow his words and his look\n",
      "Presently, with an excuse, he left me, asking me to put all my papers\n",
      "England, as if that map had been much used. On looking at it I found in\n",
      "that one was near London on the east side, manifestly where his new\n",
      "estate was situated; the other two were Exeter, and Whitby on the\n",
      "Yorkshire coast.\n",
      "It was the better part of an hour when the Count returned. “Aha!” he\n",
      "said; “still at your books? Good! But you must not work always. Come; I\n",
      "am informed that your supper is ready.” He took my arm, and we went into\n",
      "Count again excused himself, as he had dined out on his being away from\n",
      "After supper I smoked, as on the last evening, and the Count stayed with\n",
      "They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to\n",
      "with preternatural shrillness through the clear morning air; Count\n",
      "Dracula, jumping to his feet, said:--\n",
      "“Why, there is the morning again! How remiss I am to let you stay up so\n",
      "England less interesting, so that I may not forget how time flies by\n",
      "_8 May._--I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too\n",
      "me; but would that that were all! If there were any one to talk to I\n",
      "could bear it, but there is no one. I have only the Count to speak with,\n",
      "and heard the Count’s voice saying to me, “Good-morning.” I started, for\n",
      "but did not notice it at the moment. Having answered the Count’s\n",
      "This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I\n",
      "the mirror! The whole room behind me was displayed; but there was no\n",
      "feeling of uneasiness which I always have when the Count is near; but at\n",
      "round to look for some sticking plaster. When the Count saw my face, his\n",
      "“Take care,” he said, “take care how you cut yourself. It is more\n",
      "dangerous than you think in this country.” Then seizing the shaving\n",
      "glass, he went on: “And this is the wretched thing that has done the\n",
      "When I went into the dining-room, breakfast was prepared; but I could\n",
      "not find the Count anywhere. So I breakfasted alone. It is strange that\n",
      "as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very\n",
      "peculiar man! After breakfast I did a little exploring in the castle. I\n",
      "went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South. The\n",
      "touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree\n",
      "But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I\n",
      "The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!\n",
      "CHAPTER III\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_\n",
      "When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me.\n",
      "the Count. He knows well that I am imprisoned; and as he has done it\n",
      "shut, and knew that the Count had returned. He did not come at once into\n",
      "This gave me a fright, for if there is no one else in the castle, it\n",
      "must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that\n",
      "hand in silence. How was it that all the people at Bistritz and on the\n",
      "coach had some terrible fear for me? What meant the giving of the\n",
      "crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash? Bless\n",
      "a tangible help, in conveying memories of sympathy and comfort? Some\n",
      "mind about it. In the meantime I must find out all I can about Count\n",
      "Dracula, as it may help me to understand. To-night he may talk of\n",
      "_Midnight._--I have had a long talk with the Count. I asked him a few\n",
      "questions on Transylvania history, and he warmed up to the subject\n",
      "“We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood\n",
      "in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from\n",
      "Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin gave them, which their\n",
      "Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay,\n",
      "and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the\n",
      "the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame,\n",
      "old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the\n",
      "desert. Fools, fools! What devil or what witch was ever so great as\n",
      "Attila, whose blood is in these veins?” He held up his arms. “Is it a\n",
      "Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his\n",
      "thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back? Is it strange that when\n",
      "Arpad and his legions swept through the Hungarian fatherland he found us\n",
      "here when he reached the frontier; that the Honfoglalas was completed\n",
      "there? And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were\n",
      "claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries\n",
      "was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more\n",
      "than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say,\n",
      "‘water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.’ Who more gladly than we\n",
      "throughout the Four Nations received the ‘bloody sword,’ or at its\n",
      "warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? When was\n",
      "redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the\n",
      "flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent? Who\n",
      "was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat\n",
      "the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed! Woe was it that\n",
      "Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them! Was it not this Dracula,\n",
      "again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey-land; who,\n",
      "slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph! They\n",
      "without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to\n",
      "conduct it? Again, when, after the battle of Mohács, we threw off the\n",
      "Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for\n",
      "Szekelys--and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and\n",
      "Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. The warlike days are over.\n",
      "Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and\n",
      "It was by this time close on morning, and we went to bed. (_Mem._, this\n",
      "diary seems horribly like the beginning of the “Arabian Nights,” for\n",
      "everything has to break off at cockcrow--or like the ghost of Hamlet’s\n",
      "_12 May._--Let me begin with facts--bare, meagre facts, verified by\n",
      "observation, or my memory of them. Last evening when the Count came from\n",
      "matters I had been examining at Lincoln’s Inn. There was a certain\n",
      "method in the Count’s inquiries, so I shall try to put them down in\n",
      "First, he asked if a man in England might have two solicitors or more. I\n",
      "“I shall illustrate. Your friend and mine, Mr. Peter Hawkins, from under\n",
      "the shadow of your beautiful cathedral at Exeter, which is far from\n",
      "London, buys for me through your good self my place at London. Good! Now\n",
      "sought the services of one so far off from London instead of some one\n",
      "served save my wish only; and as one of London residence might, perhaps,\n",
      "I, who have much of affairs, wish to ship goods, say, to Newcastle, or\n",
      "Durham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it not be that it could with more\n",
      "“But,” said he, “I could be at liberty to direct myself. Is it not so?”\n",
      "“Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who\n",
      "“Good!” he said, and then went on to ask about the means of making\n",
      "“Have you written since your first letter to our friend Mr. Peter\n",
      "Hawkins, or to any other?” It was with some bitterness in my heart that\n",
      "“Then write now, my young friend,” he said, laying a heavy hand on my\n",
      "“Do you wish me to stay so long?” I asked, for my heart grew cold at the\n",
      "What could I do but bow acceptance? It was Mr. Hawkins’s interest, not\n",
      "mine, and I had to think of him, not myself; and besides, while Count\n",
      "Dracula was speaking, there was that in his eyes and in his bearing\n",
      "could have no choice. The Count saw his victory in my bow, and his\n",
      "home to them. Is it not so?” As he spoke he handed me three sheets of\n",
      "now, but to write fully to Mr. Hawkins in secret, and also to Mina, for\n",
      "to her I could write in shorthand, which would puzzle the Count, if he\n",
      "book whilst the Count wrote several notes, referring as he wrote them to\n",
      "One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The\n",
      "Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna; the third was to\n",
      "Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth,\n",
      "bankers, Buda-Pesth. The second and fourth were unsealed. I was just\n",
      "to resume my book before the Count, holding still another letter in his\n",
      "evening. You will, I hope, find all things as you wish.” At the door he\n",
      "“Let me advise you, my dear young friend--nay, let me warn you with all\n",
      "warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then\n",
      "safe. But if you be not careful in this respect, then”--He finished his\n",
      "_Later._--I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no\n",
      "When he left me I went to my room. After a little while, not hearing any\n",
      "towards the South. There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse,\n",
      "It is destroying my nerve. I start at my own shadow, and am full of all\n",
      "the rooms, that the windows of the Count’s own room would look out. The\n",
      "What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the window. I did not\n",
      "What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the\n",
      "_15 May._--Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.\n",
      "He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good\n",
      "door was locked, and the key was gone! That key must be in the Count’s\n",
      "presence of the Count, and after trying a little to school my nerves, I\n",
      "_Later: the Morning of 16 May._--God preserve my sanity, for to this I\n",
      "Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not\n",
      "hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me; that to him alone I\n",
      "purpose. Great God! merciful God! Let me be calm, for out of that way\n",
      "have puzzled me. Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant\n",
      "when he made Hamlet say:--\n",
      "“My tablets! quick, my tablets!\n",
      "’Tis meet that I put it down,” etc.,\n",
      "The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me.\n",
      "The Count’s mysterious warning frightened me at the time; it frightens\n",
      "When I had written in my diary and had fortunately replaced the book and\n",
      "pen in my pocket I felt sleepy. The Count’s warning came into my mind,\n",
      "noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be\n",
      "day it should meet Mina’s eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth.\n",
      "They whispered together, and then they all three laughed--such a\n",
      "The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her\n",
      "“Go on! You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to\n",
      "begin.” The other added:--\n",
      "“He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.” I lay quiet,\n",
      "The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement\n",
      "But at that instant, another sensation swept through me as quick as\n",
      "lightning. I was conscious of the presence of the Count, and of his\n",
      "passion. But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to\n",
      "“How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when\n",
      "I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware\n",
      "how you meddle with him, or you’ll have to deal with me.” The fair girl,\n",
      "“You yourself never loved; you never love!” On this the other women\n",
      "of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively,\n",
      "“Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it\n",
      "not so? Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall\n",
      "“Are we to have nothing to-night?” said one of them, with a low laugh,\n",
      "Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious.\n",
      "CHAPTER IV\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_\n",
      "I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\n",
      "thing I am glad: if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed\n",
      "_18 May._--I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for\n",
      "_19 May._--I am surely in the toils. Last night the Count asked me in\n",
      "Bistritz. I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present state\n",
      "of things it would be madness to quarrel openly with the Count whilst I\n",
      "be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my\n",
      "“The first should be June 12, the second June 19, and the third June\n",
      "_28 May._--There is a chance of escape, or at any rate of being able to\n",
      "send word home. A band of Szgany have come to the castle, and are\n",
      "encamped in the courtyard. These Szgany are gipsies; I have notes of\n",
      "of them in Hungary and Transylvania, who are almost outside all law.\n",
      "They attach themselves as a rule to some great noble or _boyar_, and\n",
      "save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of the Romany\n",
      "I have written the letters. Mina’s is in shorthand, and I simply ask Mr.\n",
      "Hawkins to communicate with her. To her I have explained my situation,\n",
      "letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my secret or the\n",
      "read. As the Count did not come in, I have written here....\n",
      "The Count has come. He sat down beside me, and said in his smoothest\n",
      "“The Szgany has given me these, of which, though I know not whence they\n",
      "it--“one is from you, and to my friend Peter Hawkins; the other”--here\n",
      "other is a vile thing, an outrage upon friendship and hospitality! It is\n",
      "not signed. Well! so it cannot matter to us.” And he calmly held letter\n",
      "“The letter to Hawkins--that I shall, of course, send on, since it is\n",
      "unknowingly I did break the seal. Will you not cover it again?” He held\n",
      "When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his\n",
      "“So, my friend, you are tired? Get to bed. There is the surest rest. I\n",
      "_31 May._--This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself\n",
      "Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda,\n",
      "The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and\n",
      "_17 June._--This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed\n",
      "With joy I hurried to the window, and saw drive into the yard two great\n",
      "each pair a Slovak, with his wide hat, great nail-studded belt, dirty\n",
      "Then I ran to the window and cried to them. They looked up at me\n",
      "stupidly and pointed, but just then the “hetman” of the Szgany came out,\n",
      "The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick\n",
      "rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks\n",
      "yard, the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany, and spitting on\n",
      "_24 June, before morning._--Last night the Count left me early, and\n",
      "thought I would watch for the Count, for there is something going on.\n",
      "The Szgany are quartered somewhere in the castle and are doing work of\n",
      "something coming out of the Count’s window. I drew back and watched\n",
      "and in my garb, too! This, then, is his new scheme of evil: that he will\n",
      "It makes me rage to think that this can go on, and whilst I am shut up\n",
      "I thought I would watch for the Count’s return, and for a long time sat\n",
      "Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far\n",
      "was becoming hypnotised! Quicker and quicker danced the dust; the\n",
      "When a couple of hours had passed I heard something stirring in the\n",
      "Count’s room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed; and then\n",
      "As I sat I heard a sound in the courtyard without--the agonised cry of a\n",
      "“Monster, give me my child!”\n",
      "She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the same\n",
      "Somewhere high overhead, probably on the tower, I heard the voice of the\n",
      "Count calling in his harsh, metallic whisper. His call seemed to be\n",
      "There was no cry from the woman, and the howling of the wolves was but\n",
      "What shall I do? what can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful\n",
      "_25 June, morning._--No man knows till he has suffered from the night\n",
      "Let me not think of it. Action!\n",
      "It has always been at night-time that I have been molested or\n",
      "Count in the daylight. Can it be that he sleeps when others wake, that\n",
      "he may be awake whilst they sleep? If I could only get into his room!\n",
      "But there is no possible way. The door is always locked, no way for me.\n",
      "Yes, there is a way, if one dares to take it. Where his body has gone\n",
      "window. Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window? The\n",
      "calf’s, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me\n",
      "in my task! Good-bye, Mina, if I fail; good-bye, my faithful friend and\n",
      "second father; good-bye, all, and last of all Mina!\n",
      "_Same day, later._--I have made the effort, and God, helping me, have\n",
      "well the direction and distance of the Count’s window, and made for it\n",
      "around for the Count, but, with surprise and gladness, made a discovery.\n",
      "The room was empty! It was barely furnished with odd things, which\n",
      "corner--gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and\n",
      "Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as\n",
      "At one corner of the room was a heavy door. I tried it, for, since I\n",
      "brought by the Slovaks. There was nobody about, and I made search for\n",
      "There, in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, on a\n",
      "pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count! He was either dead or asleep, I\n",
      "By the side of the box was its cover, pierced with holes here and there.\n",
      "leaving the Count’s room by the window, crawled again up the castle\n",
      "_29 June._--To-day is the date of my last letter, and the Count has\n",
      "I was awakened by the Count, who looked at me as grimly as a man can\n",
      "“To-morrow, my friend, we must part. You return to your beautiful\n",
      "England, I to some work which may have such an end that we may never\n",
      "Szgany, who have some labours of their own here, and also come some\n",
      "Slovaks. When they have gone, my carriage shall come for you, and shall\n",
      "bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to\n",
      "Bistritz. But I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle\n",
      "Dracula.” I suspected him, and determined to test his sincerity.\n",
      "Sincerity! It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in\n",
      "“Why may I not go to-night?”\n",
      "“Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission.”\n",
      "“But I would walk with pleasure. I want to get away at once.” He smiled,\n",
      "“And your baggage?”\n",
      "The Count stood up, and said, with a sweet courtesy which made me rub my\n",
      "“You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is\n",
      "that which rules our _boyars_: ‘Welcome the coming; speed the parting\n",
      "guest.’ Come with me, my dear young friend. Not an hour shall you wait\n",
      "you so suddenly desire it. Come!” With a stately gravity, he, with the\n",
      "“Hark!”\n",
      "Close at hand came the howling of many wolves. It was almost as if the\n",
      "To my intense astonishment I saw that it was unlocked. Suspiciously, I\n",
      "As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew louder\n",
      "to struggle at the moment against the Count was useless. With such\n",
      "continued slowly to open, and only the Count’s body stood in the gap.\n",
      "Suddenly it struck me that this might be the moment and means of my\n",
      "was a diabolical wickedness in the idea great enough for the Count, and\n",
      "“Shut the door; I shall wait till morning!” and covered my face with my\n",
      "powerful arm, the Count threw the door shut, and the great bolts clanged\n",
      "In silence we returned to the library, and after a minute or two I went\n",
      "to my own room. The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand\n",
      "Judas in hell might be proud of.\n",
      "When I was in my room and about to lie down, I thought I heard a\n",
      "deceived me, I heard the voice of the Count:--\n",
      "“Back, back, to your own place! Your time is not yet come. Wait! Have\n",
      "patience! To-night is mine. To-morrow night is yours!” There was a low,\n",
      "the end? To-morrow! to-morrow! Lord, help me, and those to whom I am\n",
      "_30 June, morning._--These may be the last words I ever write in this\n",
      "on my knees, for I determined that if Death came he should find me\n",
      "At last I felt that subtle change in the air, and knew that the morning\n",
      "With a glad heart, I opened my door and ran down to the hall. I had seen\n",
      "But the door would not move. Despair seized me. I pulled, and pulled, at\n",
      "Count.\n",
      "Then a wild desire took me to obtain that key at any risk, and I\n",
      "determined then and there to scale the wall again and gain the Count’s\n",
      "down the wall, as before, into the Count’s room. It was empty, but that\n",
      "The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the lid\n",
      "something which filled my very soul with horror. There lay the Count,\n",
      "key. Then I stopped and looked at the Count. There was a mocking smile\n",
      "was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come\n",
      "cracking of whips; the Szgany and the Slovaks of whom the Count had\n",
      "contained the vile body, I ran from the place and gained the Count’s\n",
      "With strained ears, I listened, and heard downstairs the grinding of the\n",
      "As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet\n",
      "The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key\n",
      "Hark! in the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels,\n",
      "the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass into the\n",
      "I am alone in the castle with those awful women. Faugh! Mina is a woman,\n",
      "and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit!\n",
      "And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away\n",
      "At least God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the\n",
      "Good-bye, all! Mina!\n",
      "CHAPTER V\n",
      "_Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra._\n",
      "“_9 May._\n",
      "“My dearest Lucy,--\n",
      "“Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\n",
      "lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have\n",
      "be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I\n",
      "two-pages-to-the-week-with-Sunday-squeezed-in-a-corner diaries, but a\n",
      "intended for them. I may show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it\n",
      "plans when we meet. I have just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan\n",
      "from Transylvania. He is well, and will be returning in about a week. I\n",
      "countries. I wonder if we--I mean Jonathan and I--shall ever see them\n",
      "“Your loving\n",
      "“MINA.\n",
      "“Tell me all the news when you write. You have not told me anything for\n",
      "_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray_.\n",
      "“_17, Chatham Street_,\n",
      "“_Wednesday_.\n",
      "“My dearest Mina,--\n",
      "last Pop. Some one has evidently been telling tales. That was Mr.\n",
      "Holmwood. He often comes to see us, and he and mamma get on very well\n",
      "engaged to Jonathan. He is an excellent _parti_, being handsome, well\n",
      "off, and of good birth. He is a doctor and really clever. Just fancy! He\n",
      "bore. That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day.\n",
      "There, it is all out. Mina, we have told all our secrets to each other\n",
      "to speak more. Oh, Mina, couldn’t you guess? I love him. I am blushing\n",
      "words. But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him! There, that\n",
      "prayers; and, Mina, pray for my happiness.\n",
      "“LUCY.\n",
      "_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray_.\n",
      "“_24 May_.\n",
      "“My dearest Mina,--\n",
      "“Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter. It was so\n",
      "“My dear, it never rains but it pours. How true the old proverbs are.\n",
      "Here am I, who shall be twenty in September, and yet I never had a\n",
      "Just fancy! THREE proposals in one day! Isn’t it awful! I feel sorry,\n",
      "really and truly sorry, for two of the poor fellows. Oh, Mina, I am so\n",
      "But, for goodness’ sake, don’t tell any of the girls, or they would be\n",
      "least. Some girls are so vain! You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and\n",
      "it a secret, dear, from _every one_, except, of course, Jonathan. You\n",
      "Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think\n",
      "quite as fair as they should be. Well, my dear, number One came just\n",
      "before lunch. I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum\n",
      "me, Mina, very straightforwardly. He told me how dear I was to him,\n",
      "free a man might have hope. And then, Mina, I felt a sort of duty to\n",
      "wanted a friend I must count him one of my best. Oh, Mina dear, I can’t\n",
      "“_Evening._\n",
      "“Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than when I left\n",
      "off, so I can go on telling you about the day. Well, my dear, number Two\n",
      "came after lunch. He is such a nice fellow, an American from Texas, and\n",
      "with poor Desdemona when she had such a dangerous stream poured in her\n",
      "don’t, for there was Mr. Morris telling us his stories, and Arthur never\n",
      "told any, and yet---- My dear, I am somewhat previous. Mr. Quincey P.\n",
      "Morris found me alone. It seems that a man always does find a girl\n",
      "alone. No, he doesn’t, for Arthur tried twice to _make_ a chance, and I\n",
      "beforehand that Mr. Morris doesn’t always speak slang--that is to say,\n",
      "to hear him talk American slang, and whenever I was present, and there\n",
      "ever speak slang; I do not know if Arthur likes it, as I have never\n",
      "heard him use any as yet. Well, Mr. Morris sat down beside me and looked\n",
      "“‘Miss Lucy, I know I ain’t good enough to regulate the fixin’s of your\n",
      "“Well, he did look so good-humoured and so jolly that it didn’t seem\n",
      "half so hard to refuse him as it did poor Dr. Seward; so I said, as\n",
      "feeling a bit serious too--I know, Mina, you will think me a horrid\n",
      "“‘Lucy, you are an honest-hearted girl, I know. I should not be here\n",
      "to another, is there any one else that you care for? And if there is\n",
      "“My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy\n",
      "of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great-hearted, true\n",
      "her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say\n",
      "Mr. Morris’s brave eyes, and I told him out straight:--\n",
      "“‘Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he\n",
      "“‘That’s my brave girl. It’s better worth being late for a chance of\n",
      "lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. Won’t you give me one kiss?\n",
      "It’ll be something to keep off the darkness now and then. You can, you\n",
      "yet.’ That quite won me, Mina, for it _was_ brave and sweet of him, and\n",
      "“‘Little girl, I hold your hand, and you’ve kissed me, and if these\n",
      "honesty to me, and good-bye.’ He wrung my hand, and taking up his hat,\n",
      "“Ever your loving\n",
      "“LUCY.\n",
      "“P.S.--Oh, about number Three--I needn’t tell you of number Three, need\n",
      "I? Besides, it was all so confused; it seemed only a moment from his\n",
      "ungrateful to God for all His goodness to me in sending to me such a\n",
      "“Good-bye.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "(Kept in phonograph)\n",
      "_25 May._--Ebb tide in appetite to-day. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so\n",
      "(_Mem._, under what circumstances would I _not_ avoid the pit of hell?)\n",
      "_Omnia Romæ venalia sunt._ Hell has its price! _verb. sap._ If there be\n",
      "R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.--Sanguine temperament; great physical strength;\n",
      "_Letter, Quincey P. Morris to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._\n",
      "“_25 May._\n",
      "“My dear Art,--\n",
      "“We’ve told yarns by the camp-fire in the prairies; and dressed one\n",
      "another’s wounds after trying a landing at the Marquesas; and drunk\n",
      "healths on the shore of Titicaca. There are more yarns to be told, and\n",
      "Korea, Jack Seward. He’s coming, too, and we both want to mingle our\n",
      "that God has made and the best worth winning. We promise you a hearty\n",
      "“Yours, as ever and always,\n",
      "“QUINCEY P. MORRIS.”\n",
      "_Telegram from Arthur Holmwood to Quincey P. Morris._\n",
      "“_26 May._\n",
      "“Count me in every time. I bear messages which will make both your ears\n",
      "“ART.”\n",
      "CHAPTER VI\n",
      "MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\n",
      "lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\n",
      "Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\n",
      "pictures we see of Nuremberg. Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby\n",
      "Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of\n",
      "“Marmion,” where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble\n",
      "Whitby, for it lies right over the town, and has a full view of the\n",
      "harbour and all up the bay to where the headland called Kettleness\n",
      "The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall\n",
      "It is nice at high water; but when the tide is out it shoals away to\n",
      "nothing, and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between\n",
      "He is a funny old man. He must be awfully old, for his face is all\n",
      "nearly a hundred, and that he was a sailor in the Greenland fishing\n",
      "fleet when Waterloo was fought. He is, I am afraid, a very sceptical\n",
      "person, for when I asked him about the bells at sea and the White Lady\n",
      "Mind, I don’t say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn’t in\n",
      "but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet-folks from York and\n",
      "Leeds that be always eatin’ cured herrin’s an’ drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’\n",
      "He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could, down\n",
      "_1 August._--I came up here an hour ago with Lucy, and we had a most\n",
      "and join him. He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them, and I should think\n",
      "She is so sweet with old people; I think they all fell in love with her\n",
      "“It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel; that’s what it be, an’\n",
      "them, ‘Here lies the body’ or ‘Sacred to the memory’ wrote on all of\n",
      "sacred. Lies all of them, nothin’ but lies of one kind or another! My\n",
      "gog, but it’ll be a quare scowderment at the Day of Judgment when they\n",
      "“Oh, Mr. Swales, you can’t be serious. Surely these tombstones are not\n",
      "“Yabblins! There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin’ where they make\n",
      "He went on: “And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that be\n",
      "happed here, snod an’ snog?” I assented again. “Then that be just where\n",
      "old Dun’s ’bacca-box on Friday night.” He nudged one of his companions,\n",
      "and they all laughed. “And my gog! how could they be otherwise? Look at\n",
      "“Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of\n",
      "Andres, April, 1854, æt. 30.” When I came back Mr. Swales went on:--\n",
      "“Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the coast\n",
      "of Andres! an’ you consated his body lay under! Why, I could name ye a\n",
      "dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above”--he pointed\n",
      "the lies from here. This Braithwaite Lowrey--I knew his father, lost in\n",
      "the _Lively_ off Greenland in ’20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the\n",
      "same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year\n",
      "later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned\n",
      "in the Gulf of Finland in ’50. Do ye think that all these men will have\n",
      "to make a rush to Whitby when the trumpet sounds? I have me antherums\n",
      "tryin’ to tie up our cuts by the light of the aurora borealis.” This was\n",
      "“But,” I said, “surely you are not quite correct, for you start on the\n",
      "take their tombstones with them on the Day of Judgment. Do you think\n",
      "“Well, what else be they tombstones for? Answer me that, miss!”\n",
      "“To please their relatives, I suppose.”\n",
      "“To please their relatives, you suppose!” This he said with intense\n",
      "scorn. “How will it pleasure their relatives to know that lies is wrote\n",
      "over them, and that everybody in the place knows that they be lies?” He\n",
      "which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff. “Read the\n",
      "from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over\n",
      "“Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a\n",
      "glorious resurrection, on July, 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at\n",
      "Kettleness. This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly\n",
      "beloved son. ‘He was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.’\n",
      "Really, Mr. Swales, I don’t see anything very funny in that!” She spoke\n",
      "“Ye don’t see aught funny! Ha! ha! But that’s because ye don’t gawm the\n",
      "they had for scarin’ the crows with. ’Twarn’t for crows then, for it\n",
      "stick as he spoke--“a pack of lies? and won’t it make Gabriel keckle\n",
      "when Geordie comes pantin’ up the grees with the tombstean balanced on\n",
      "I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she\n",
      "“Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favourite seat, and I cannot\n",
      "“That won’t harm ye, my pretty; an’ it may make poor Geordie gladsome to\n",
      "there either! It’ll be time for ye to be getting scart when ye see the\n",
      "There’s the clock, an’ I must gang. My service to ye, ladies!” And off\n",
      "Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we\n",
      "took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and\n",
      "haven’t heard from Jonathan for a whole month.\n",
      "_The same day._ I came up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no\n",
      "letter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the matter with Jonathan.\n",
      "The clock has just struck nine. I see the lights scattered all over the\n",
      "they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley. To my\n",
      "The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further\n",
      "along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.\n",
      "Neither of the bands hears the other, but up here I hear and see them\n",
      "both. I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_5 June._--The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to\n",
      "simple seriousness. He thought for a moment, and then said: “May I have\n",
      "three days? I shall clear them away.” Of course, I said that would do. I\n",
      "_18 June._--He has turned his mind now to spiders, and has got several\n",
      "_1 July._--His spiders are now becoming as great a nuisance as his\n",
      "_8 July._--There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in\n",
      "_19 July._--We are progressing. My friend has now a whole colony of\n",
      "“Oh, yes, I would like a cat! I only asked for a kitten lest you should\n",
      "_20 July._--Visited Renfield very early, before the attendant went his\n",
      "There were a few feathers about the room and on his pillow a drop of\n",
      "_11 a. m._--The attendant has just been to me to say that Renfield has\n",
      "been very sick and has disgorged a whole lot of feathers. “My belief is,\n",
      "_11 p. m._--I gave Renfield a strong opiate to-night, enough to make\n",
      "steps? It would almost be worth while to complete the experiment. It\n",
      "vivisection, and yet look at its results to-day! Why not advance science\n",
      "in its most difficult and vital aspect--the knowledge of the brain? Had\n",
      "compared with which Burdon-Sanderson’s physiology or Ferrier’s\n",
      "How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I\n",
      "To me it seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new hope,\n",
      "and that truly I began a new record. So it will be until the Great\n",
      "Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance to\n",
      "profit or loss. Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be\n",
      "If I only could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there--a\n",
      "_Mina Murray’s Journal._\n",
      "_26 July._--I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here; it\n",
      "different from writing. I am unhappy about Lucy and about Jonathan. I\n",
      "had not heard from Jonathan for some time, and was very concerned; but\n",
      "yesterday dear Mr. Hawkins, who is always so kind, sent me a letter from\n",
      "had just been received. It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula,\n",
      "and says that he is just starting for home. That is not like Jonathan;\n",
      "I do not understand it, and it makes me uneasy. Then, too, Lucy,\n",
      "naturally anxious about Lucy, and she tells me that her husband, Lucy’s\n",
      "to be arranged. I sympathise with her, for I do the same, only Jonathan\n",
      "make both ends meet. Mr. Holmwood--he is the Hon. Arthur Holmwood, only\n",
      "son of Lord Godalming--is coming up here very shortly--as soon as he can\n",
      "leave town, for his father is not very well, and I think dear Lucy is\n",
      "on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby. I daresay it\n",
      "_27 July._--No news from Jonathan. I am getting quite uneasy about him,\n",
      "wakeful myself. Thank God, Lucy’s health keeps up. Mr. Holmwood has been\n",
      "suddenly called to Ring to see his father, who has been taken seriously\n",
      "_3 August._--Another week gone, and no news from Jonathan, not even to\n",
      "Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard. Oh, I do hope he is not ill. He\n",
      "_6 August._--Another three days, and no news. This suspense is getting\n",
      "feel easier; but no one has heard a word of Jonathan since that last\n",
      "letter. I must only pray to God for patience. Lucy is more excitable\n",
      "hidden in thick clouds, high over Kettleness. Everything is grey--except\n",
      "Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in\n",
      "the mist, and seem “men like trees walking.” The fishing-boats are\n",
      "the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Here comes old Mr. Swales. He is\n",
      "own heart a bit. But, Lord love ye, miss, I ain’t afraid of dyin’, not a\n",
      "expect; and I’m so nigh it that the Aud Man is already whettin’ his\n",
      "once; the chafts will wag as they be used to. Some day soon the Angel of\n",
      "Death will sound his trumpet for me. But don’t ye dooal an’ greet, my\n",
      "cried suddenly. “There’s something in that wind and in the hoast beyont\n",
      "comes!” He held up his arms devoutly, and raised his hat. His mouth\n",
      "“I can’t make her out,” he said; “she’s a Russian, by the look of her;\n",
      "run up north in the open, or to put in here. Look there again! She is\n",
      "CHAPTER VII\n",
      "CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST\n",
      "(_Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal._)\n",
      "From a Correspondent.\n",
      "_Whitby_.\n",
      "One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\n",
      "August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great\n",
      "body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods,\n",
      "Robin Hood’s Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in\n",
      "the neighbourhood of Whitby. The steamers _Emma_ and _Scarborough_ made\n",
      "“tripping” both to and from Whitby. The day was unusually fine till the\n",
      "afternoon, when some of the gossips who frequent the East Cliff\n",
      "language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.” The coastguard on duty at once\n",
      "kept watch on weather signs from the East Cliff, foretold in an emphatic\n",
      "mass of Kettleness, standing boldly athwart the western sky, its\n",
      "sketches of the “Prelude to the Great Storm” will grace the R. A. and R.\n",
      "I. walls in May next. More than one captain made up his mind then and\n",
      "The wind fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there\n",
      "“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”\n",
      "Shortly before ten o’clock the stillness of the air grew quite\n",
      "band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a discord in the\n",
      "Then without warning the tempest broke. With a rapidity which, at the\n",
      "White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the\n",
      "of Whitby Harbour. The wind roared like thunder, and blew with such\n",
      "Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of\n",
      "the white wings of a storm-tossed sea-bird. On the summit of the East\n",
      "Cliff the new searchlight was ready for experiment, but had not yet been\n",
      "Once or twice its service was most effective, as when a fishing-boat,\n",
      "Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner\n",
      "if it was only in hell.” Then came another rush of sea-fog, greater than\n",
      "mouth across the East Pier, where the shock was expected, and men waited\n",
      "found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead man! However,\n",
      "storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East\n",
      "Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.\n",
      "There was of course a considerable concussion as the vessel drove up on\n",
      "hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat\n",
      "the Whitby vernacular--actually project over where the sustaining cliff\n",
      "It so happened that there was no one at the moment on Tate Hill Pier, as\n",
      "round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your\n",
      "When I arrived, however, I found already assembled on the pier a crowd,\n",
      "It was no wonder that the coastguard was surprised, or even awed, for\n",
      "state of things, and a doctor--Surgeon J. M. Caffyn, of 33, East Elliot\n",
      "Place--who came immediately after me, declared, after making\n",
      "complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot\n",
      "noble as that of the young Casabianca--and placed in the mortuary to\n",
      "Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating;\n",
      "the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further\n",
      "_Whitby_\n",
      "_9 August._--The sequel to the strange arrival of the derelict in the\n",
      "turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the\n",
      "_Demeter_. She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a\n",
      "This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr. S. F. Billington, of\n",
      "7, The Crescent, who this morning went aboard and formally took\n",
      "possession of the goods consigned to him. The Russian consul, too,\n",
      "the strange coincidence; the officials of the Board of Trade have been\n",
      "S. P. C. A., which is very strong in Whitby, have tried to befriend the\n",
      "mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found\n",
      "_Later._--By the kindness of the Board of Trade inspector, I have been\n",
      "permitted to look over the log-book of the _Demeter_, which was in order\n",
      "dictation of a clerk of the Russian consul, who kindly translated for\n",
      "LOG OF THE “DEMETER.”\n",
      "_Varna to Whitby._\n",
      "_Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep\n",
      "On 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth.\n",
      "At noon set sail. East wind, fresh. Crew, five hands ... two mates,\n",
      "On 11 July at dawn entered Bosphorus. Boarded by Turkish Customs\n",
      "On 12 July through Dardanelles. More Customs officers and flagboat of\n",
      "quick. Want us off soon. At dark passed into Archipelago.\n",
      "On 13 July passed Cape Matapan. Crew dissatisfied about something.\n",
      "Seemed scared, but would not speak out.\n",
      "On 14 July was somewhat anxious about crew. Men all steady fellows, who\n",
      "On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of crew, Petrofsky, was\n",
      "night; was relieved by Abramoff, but did not go to bunk. Men more\n",
      "On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in\n",
      "He was in a panic of superstitious fear, and I am afraid the panic may\n",
      "Later in the day I got together the whole crew, and told them, as they\n",
      "_22 July_.--Rough weather last three days, and all hands busy with\n",
      "Mate cheerful again, and all on good terms. Praised men for work in bad\n",
      "weather. Passed Gibralter and out through Straits. All well.\n",
      "_24 July_.--There seems some doom over this ship. Already a hand short,\n",
      "and entering on the Bay of Biscay with wild weather ahead, and yet last\n",
      "_28 July_.--Four days in hell, knocking about in a sort of maelstrom,\n",
      "Wind abating; seas still terrific, but feel them less, as ship is\n",
      "_29 July_.--Another tragedy. Had single watch to-night, as crew too\n",
      "_30 July_.--Last night. Rejoiced we are nearing England. Weather fine,\n",
      "_1 August_.--Two days of fog, and not a sail sighted. Had hoped when in\n",
      "the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere.\n",
      "Not having power to work sails, have to run before wind. Dare not lower,\n",
      "Russian, he Roumanian.\n",
      "_2 August, midnight_.--Woke up from few minutes’ sleep by hearing a cry,\n",
      "watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate says we must be past Straits\n",
      "of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as\n",
      "he heard the man cry out. If so we are now off in the North Sea, and\n",
      "only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us; and God\n",
      "_3 August_.--At midnight I went to relieve the man at the wheel, and\n",
      "ear, as though fearing the very air might hear: “_It_ is here; I know\n",
      "it, now. On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin,\n",
      "It, and gave It my knife; but the knife went through It, empty as the\n",
      "air.” And as he spoke he took his knife and drove it savagely into\n",
      "space. Then he went on: “But It is here, and I’ll find It. It is in the\n",
      "see. You work the helm.” And, with a warning look and his finger on his\n",
      "write these notes. I can only trust in God and wait till the fog clears.\n",
      "Then, if I can’t steer to any harbour with the wind that is, I shall cut\n",
      "It is nearly all over now. Just as I was beginning to hope that the mate\n",
      "his face convulsed with fear. “Save me! save me!” he cried, and then\n",
      "a steady voice he said: “You had better come too, captain, before it is\n",
      "too late. _He_ is there. I know the secret now. The sea will save me\n",
      "from Him, and it is all that is left!” Before I could say a word, or\n",
      "followed them himself. God help me! How am I to account for all these\n",
      "horrors when I get to port? _When_ I get to port! Will that ever be?\n",
      "_4 August._--Still fog, which the sunrise cannot pierce. I know there is\n",
      "the dimness of the night I saw It--Him! God forgive me, but the mate was\n",
      "them I shall tie that which He--It!--dare not touch; and then, come good\n",
      "growing weaker, and the night is coming on. If He can look me in the\n",
      "and the Blessed Virgin and the saints help a poor ignorant soul trying\n",
      "Of course the verdict was an open one. There is no evidence to adduce;\n",
      "arranged that his body is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk\n",
      "for a piece and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey\n",
      "No trace has ever been found of the great dog; at which there is much\n",
      "_Mina Murray’s Journal._\n",
      "_8 August._--Lucy was very restless all night, and I, too, could not\n",
      "like a distant gun. Strangely enough, Lucy did not wake; but she got up\n",
      "Early in the morning we both got up and went down to the harbour to see\n",
      "felt glad that Jonathan was not on the sea last night, but on land. But,\n",
      "oh, is he on land or sea? Where is he, and how? I am getting fearfully\n",
      "_10 August._--The funeral of the poor sea-captain to-day was most\n",
      "was carried by captains all the way from Tate Hill Pier up to the\n",
      "the cortège of boats went up the river to the Viaduct and came down\n",
      "The poor fellow was laid to rest quite near our seat so that we stood on\n",
      "it when the time came and saw everything. Poor Lucy seemed much upset.\n",
      "She was restless and uneasy all the time, and I cannot but think that\n",
      "cause in that poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our\n",
      "dear old man! Perhaps he had seen Death with his dying eyes! Lucy is so\n",
      "The dog is always with him. They are both quiet persons, and I never saw\n",
      "shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood’s Bay and\n",
      "CHAPTER VIII\n",
      "MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_Same day, 11 o’clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I\n",
      "and give us a fresh start. We had a capital “severe tea” at Robin Hood’s\n",
      "Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow-window right over\n",
      "shocked the “New Woman” with our appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless\n",
      "them! Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to rest,\n",
      "The young curate came in, however, and Mrs. Westenra asked him to stay\n",
      "looks, oh, so sweet. If Mr. Holmwood fell in love with her seeing her\n",
      "Some of the “New Women” writers will some day start an idea that men and\n",
      "accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to\n",
      "of it, too! There’s some consolation in that. I am so happy to-night,\n",
      "because dear Lucy seems better. I really believe she has turned the\n",
      "quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan.... God bless and keep him.\n",
      "_11 August, 3 a. m._--Diary again. No sleep now, so I may as well write.\n",
      "Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense of fear\n",
      "so I could not see Lucy’s bed; I stole across and felt for her. The bed\n",
      "Dressing-gown and dress were both in their places. “Thank God,” I said\n",
      "downstairs and looked in the sitting-room. Not there! Then I looked in\n",
      "Lucy must have gone out as she was. There was no time to think of what\n",
      "Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight. I ran along the North\n",
      "Terrace, but could see no sign of the white figure which I expected. At\n",
      "the edge of the West Cliff above the pier I looked across the harbour to\n",
      "the East Cliff, in the hope or fear--I don’t know which--of seeing Lucy\n",
      "nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary’s Church and all\n",
      "fish-market to the bridge, which was the only way to reach the East\n",
      "Cliff. The town seemed as dead, for not a soul did I see; I rejoiced\n",
      "that it was so, for I wanted no witness of poor Lucy’s condition. The\n",
      "half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, “Lucy! Lucy!” and\n",
      "that I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back\n",
      "When I bent over her I could see that she was still asleep. Her lips\n",
      "Lucy always wakes prettily, and even at such a time, when her body must\n",
      "passed along, the gravel hurt my feet, and Lucy noticed me wince. She\n",
      "However, when we got to the pathway outside the churchyard, where there\n",
      "Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw\n",
      "Scotland. My heart beat so loud all the time that sometimes I thought I\n",
      "should faint. I was filled with anxiety about Lucy, not only for her\n",
      "_Same day, noon._--All goes well. Lucy slept till I woke her and seemed\n",
      "_Same day, night._--We passed a happy day. The air was clear, and the\n",
      "sun bright, and there was a cool breeze. We took our lunch to Mulgrave\n",
      "Woods, Mrs. Westenra driving by the road and Lucy and I walking by the\n",
      "Jonathan been with me. But there! I must only be patient. In the evening\n",
      "we strolled in the Casino Terrace, and heard some good music by Spohr\n",
      "and Mackenzie, and went to bed early. Lucy seems more restful than she\n",
      "_12 August._--My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I\n",
      "was wakened by Lucy trying to get out. She seemed, even in her sleep, to\n",
      "and told me all about Arthur. I told her how anxious I was about\n",
      "Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded\n",
      "_13 August._--Another quiet day, and to bed with the key on my wrist as\n",
      "before. Again I awoke in the night, and found Lucy sitting up in bed,\n",
      "from the window Lucy had lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully.\n",
      "She did not stir again all night.\n",
      "_14 August._--On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day. Lucy seems\n",
      "dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and\n",
      "down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness; the red light was\n",
      "thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe\n",
      "suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself:--\n",
      "“His red eyes again! They are just the same.” It was such an odd\n",
      "slewed round a little, so as to see Lucy well without seeming to stare\n",
      "sunlight was shining on the windows of St. Mary’s Church behind our\n",
      "called Lucy’s attention to the peculiar effect, and she became herself\n",
      "sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan. When coming home--it was then\n",
      "Crescent was in shadow, everything could be well seen--I threw a glance\n",
      "up at our window, and saw Lucy’s head leaning out. I thought that\n",
      "on the window. There distinctly was Lucy with her head lying up against\n",
      "She looks so sweet as she sleeps; but she is paler than is her wont, and\n",
      "_15 August._--Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and\n",
      "Arthur’s father is better, and wants the marriage to come off soon. Lucy\n",
      "in the day she told me the cause. She is grieved to lose Lucy as her\n",
      "protect her. Poor dear, sweet lady! She confided to me that she has got\n",
      "her death-warrant. She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy;\n",
      "the dreadful night of Lucy’s sleep-walking.\n",
      "_17 August._--No diary for two whole days. I have not had the heart to\n",
      "No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker, whilst her\n",
      "mother’s hours are numbering to a close. I do not understand Lucy’s\n",
      "They are still open, and, if anything, larger than before, and the\n",
      "_Letter, Samuel F. Billington & Son, Solicitors, Whitby, to Messrs.\n",
      "Carter, Paterson & Co., London._\n",
      "“_17 August._\n",
      "“Dear Sirs,--\n",
      "“Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great Northern\n",
      "Railway. Same are to be delivered at Carfax, near Purfleet, immediately\n",
      "on receipt at goods station King’s Cross. The house is at present empty,\n",
      "“You will please deposit the boxes, fifty in number, which form the\n",
      "goods leave by the train at 9:30 to-night, and will be due at King’s\n",
      "Cross at 4:30 to-morrow afternoon. As our client wishes the delivery\n",
      "at King’s Cross at the time named and forthwith conveying the goods to\n",
      "Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance; if\n",
      "“Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in\n",
      "_“We are, dear Sirs,\n",
      "“Faithfully yours,\n",
      "“SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON.”_\n",
      "_Letter, Messrs. Carter, Paterson & Co., London, to Messrs. Billington &\n",
      "Son, Whitby._\n",
      "“_21 August._\n",
      "“Dear Sirs,--\n",
      "“We beg to acknowledge £10 received and to return cheque £1 17s. 9d,\n",
      "“We are, dear Sirs,\n",
      "“Yours respectfully.\n",
      "“_Pro_ CARTER, PATERSON & CO.”\n",
      "_Mina Murray’s Journal._\n",
      "_18 August._--I am happy to-day, and write sitting on the seat in the\n",
      "“My poor little feet didn’t make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr.\n",
      "Swales would have told me that it was because I didn’t want to wake up\n",
      "Geordie.” As she was in such a communicative humour, I asked her if she\n",
      "look came into her forehead, which Arthur--I call him Arthur from her\n",
      "I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me,\n",
      "Then she began to laugh. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I\n",
      "subjects, and Lucy was like her old self again. When we got home the\n",
      "_19 August._--Joy, joy, joy! although not all joy. At last, news of\n",
      "Jonathan. The dear fellow has been ill; that is why he did not write. I\n",
      "morning and go over to Jonathan, and to help to nurse him if necessary,\n",
      "we were to be married out there. I have cried over the good Sister’s\n",
      "Jonathan, and must be next my heart, for he is _in_ my heart. My journey\n",
      "dress; Lucy will bring my trunk to London and keep it till I send for\n",
      "to Jonathan, my husband. The letter that he has seen and touched must\n",
      "_Letter, Sister Agatha, Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary,\n",
      "Buda-Pesth, to Miss Wilhelmina Murray._\n",
      "“_12 August._\n",
      "“Dear Madam,--\n",
      "“I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong\n",
      "enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St. Joseph\n",
      "and Ste. Mary. He has been under our care for nearly six weeks,\n",
      "and to say that by this post I write for him to Mr. Peter Hawkins,\n",
      "Exeter, to say, with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry for his\n",
      "“Believe me,\n",
      "“Yours, with sympathy and all blessings,\n",
      "“SISTER AGATHA.\n",
      "“P. S.--My patient being asleep, I open this to let you know something\n",
      "wife. All blessings to you both! He has had some fearful shock--so says\n",
      "could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard\n",
      "he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the\n",
      "“Be assured that he is well cared for. He has won all hearts by his\n",
      "safety’s sake. There are, I pray God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary, many,\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_19 August._--Strange and sudden change in Renfield last night. About\n",
      "“I don’t want to talk to you: you don’t count now; the Master is at\n",
      "The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has\n",
      "he himself is God. These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man\n",
      "are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves\n",
      "away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created\n",
      "For half an hour or more Renfield kept getting excited in greater and\n",
      "“Bother them all! I don’t care a pin about them.”\n",
      "“What?” I said. “You don’t mean to tell me you don’t care about\n",
      "spiders?” (Spiders at present are his hobby and the note-book is filling\n",
      "up with columns of small figures.) To this he answered enigmatically:--\n",
      "“The bride-maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride;\n",
      "He would not explain himself, but remained obstinately seated on his bed\n",
      "I am weary to-night and low in spirits. I cannot but think of Lucy, and\n",
      "the modern Morpheus--C_{2}HCl_{3}O. H_{2}O! I must be careful not to let\n",
      "Lucy, and I shall not dishonour her by mixing the two. If need be,\n",
      "_Later._--Glad I made the resolution; gladder that I kept to it. I had\n",
      "night-watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield\n",
      "He said he had seen him not ten minutes before, seemingly asleep in his\n",
      "The attendant thought it would be more useful to watch where he should\n",
      "immediately and follow me into the grounds of Carfax, in case our friend\n",
      "dropped down on the other side. I could see Renfield’s figure just\n",
      "is upon him! After a few minutes, however, I could see that he did not\n",
      "“I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave, and You will\n",
      "reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped You long and afar\n",
      "off. Now that You are near, I await Your commands, and You will not pass\n",
      "me by, will You, dear Master, in Your distribution of good things?”\n",
      "He _is_ a selfish old beggar anyhow. He thinks of the loaves and fishes\n",
      "even when he believes he is in a Real Presence. His manias make a\n",
      "He is immensely strong, for he was more like a wild beast than a man. I\n",
      "rate. Jack Sheppard himself couldn’t get free from the strait-waistcoat\n",
      "Just now he spoke coherent words for the first time:--\n",
      "“I shall be patient, Master. It is coming--coming--coming!”\n",
      "So I took the hint, and came too. I was too excited to sleep, but this\n",
      "CHAPTER IX\n",
      "_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._\n",
      "“_Buda-Pesth, 24 August._\n",
      "“My dearest Lucy,--\n",
      "parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull\n",
      "all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I\n",
      "knew I was coming to Jonathan, and, that as I should have to do some\n",
      "to recall it. Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse,\n",
      "secrets of God, and that if a nurse through her vocation should hear\n",
      "_my_ being jealous about Jonathan! And yet, my dear, let me whisper, I\n",
      "“When he woke he asked me for his coat, as he wanted to get something\n",
      "from the pocket; I asked Sister Agatha, and she brought all his things.\n",
      "Then he called me back, and when I came he had his hand over the\n",
      "“‘Wilhelmina’--I knew then that he was in deadly earnest, for he has\n",
      "know it. I want to take up my life here, with our marriage.’ For, my\n",
      "complete. ‘Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to share my ignorance? Here is\n",
      "the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.’ He fell\n",
      "have asked Sister Agatha to beg the Superior to let our wedding be this\n",
      "“She has come and told me that the chaplain of the English mission\n",
      "after as Jonathan awakes....\n",
      "“Lucy, the time has come and gone. I feel very solemn, but very, very\n",
      "words seemed to choke me. The dear sisters were so kind. Please God, I\n",
      "chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband--oh, Lucy, it\n",
      "Lucy, it was the first time he took _his wife’s_ hand, and said that it\n",
      "“Well, my dear, what could I say? I could only tell him that I was the\n",
      "“Lucy dear, do you know why I tell you all this? It is not only because\n",
      "please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises: a long day of\n",
      "once, and, perhaps, write you very soon again. I must stop, for Jonathan\n",
      "“Your ever-loving\n",
      "“MINA HARKER.”\n",
      "_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Harker._\n",
      "“_Whitby, 30 August._\n",
      "“My dearest Mina,--\n",
      "“Oceans of love and millions of kisses, and may you soon be in your own\n",
      "stay with us here. The strong air would soon restore Jonathan; it has\n",
      "fat. By the way, I forgot to tell you that Arthur is here. We have such\n",
      "So no more just at present from your loving\n",
      "“LUCY.\n",
      "“P. S.--Mother sends her love. She seems better, poor dear.\n",
      "“P. P. S.--We are to be married on 28 September.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_20 August._--The case of Renfield grows even more interesting. He has\n",
      "For the first week after his attack he was perpetually violent. Then one\n",
      "himself: “Now I can wait; now I can wait.” The attendant came to tell\n",
      "“They think I could hurt you! Fancy _me_ hurting _you_! The fools!”\n",
      "It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated\n",
      "After a while I left him. The attendant tells me that he was quiet\n",
      "Happy thought! We shall to-night play sane wits against mad ones. He\n",
      "_23 August._--“The unexpected always happens.” How well Disraeli knew\n",
      "The unexpected again! I am called; the patient has once more escaped.\n",
      "_Later._--Another night adventure. Renfield artfully waited until the\n",
      "Again he went into the grounds of the deserted house, and we found him\n",
      "“You needn’t tie me; I shall go quietly!” Without trouble we came back\n",
      "_Lucy Westenra’s Diary_\n",
      "_Hillingham, 24 August._--I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things\n",
      "seemed to be dreaming again just as I was at Whitby. Perhaps it is the\n",
      "weak and worn out. When Arthur came to lunch he looked quite grieved\n",
      "_25 August._--Another bad night. Mother did not seem to take to my\n",
      "get air enough. I shall try to cheer up when Arthur comes, or else I\n",
      "_Letter, Arthur Holmwood to Dr. Seward._\n",
      "“_Albemarle Hotel, 31 August._\n",
      "“My dear Jack,--\n",
      "spoken--disease of the heart--though poor Lucy does not know it yet. I\n",
      "Hillingham to-morrow, two o’clock, so as not to arouse any suspicion in\n",
      "Mrs. Westenra, and after lunch Lucy will take an opportunity of being\n",
      "“ARTHUR.”\n",
      "_Telegram, Arthur Holmwood to Seward._\n",
      "“_1 September._\n",
      "“Am summoned to see my father, who is worse. Am writing. Write me fully\n",
      "by to-night’s post to Ring. Wire me if necessary.”\n",
      "_Letter from Dr. Seward to Arthur Holmwood._\n",
      "“_2 September._\n",
      "“My dear old fellow,--\n",
      "“With regard to Miss Westenra’s health I hasten to let you know at once\n",
      "“I found Miss Westenra in seemingly gay spirits. Her mother was present,\n",
      "We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful, we\n",
      "amongst us. Then Mrs. Westenra went to lie down, and Lucy was left with\n",
      "matter in a word. ‘Tell Arthur everything you choose. I do not care for\n",
      "myself, but all for him!’ So I am quite free.\n",
      "used to walk in her sleep, and that when in Whitby the habit came back,\n",
      "and that once she walked out in the night and went to East Cliff, where\n",
      "Miss Murray found her; but she assures me that of late the habit has not\n",
      "have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of\n",
      "Amsterdam, who knows as much about obscure diseases as any one in the\n",
      "relations to Miss Westenra. This, my dear fellow, is in obedience to\n",
      "her. Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal\n",
      "him. I have asked him to come at once. I shall see Miss Westenra\n",
      "to-morrow again. She is to meet me at the Stores, so that I may not\n",
      "“Yours always,\n",
      "“JOHN SEWARD.”\n",
      "_Letter, Abraham Van Helsing, M. D., D. Ph., D. Lit., etc., etc., to Dr.\n",
      "Seward._\n",
      "“_2 September._\n",
      "“My good Friend,--\n",
      "“When I have received your letter I am already coming to you. By good\n",
      "Have then rooms for me at the Great Eastern Hotel, so that I may be near\n",
      "if it must. Till then good-bye, my friend John.\n",
      "“VAN HELSING.”\n",
      "_Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._\n",
      "“_3 September._\n",
      "“My dear Art,--\n",
      "“Van Helsing has come and gone. He came on with me to Hillingham, and\n",
      "found that, by Lucy’s discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that\n",
      "we were alone with her. Van Helsing made a very careful examination of\n",
      "trust to me in the matter, he said: ‘You must tell him all you think.\n",
      "Tell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will. Nay, I am not\n",
      "return to Amsterdam. He would not give me any further clue. You must not\n",
      "be angry with me, Art, because his very reticence means that all his\n",
      "_The Daily Telegraph_. He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the\n",
      "smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a\n",
      "“Well, as to the visit. Lucy was more cheerful than on the day I first\n",
      "struggle for it. I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick\n",
      "geniality that I could see poor Lucy’s pretense of animation merge into\n",
      "“‘My dear young miss, I have the so great pleasure because you are so\n",
      "ghastly pale. To them I say: “Pouf!”’ And he snapped his fingers at me\n",
      "and went on: ‘But you and I shall show them how wrong they are. How can\n",
      "of a young ladies? He has his madmans to play with, and to bring them\n",
      "young ladies! He has no wife nor daughter, and the young do not tell\n",
      "And yet there is cause; there is always cause for everything. I must go\n",
      "“As I tell you, he would not say a word more, even when we were alone.\n",
      "And so now, Art, you know all I know. I shall keep stern watch. I trust\n",
      "come at once to Lucy; so do not be over-anxious unless you hear from\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_4 September._--Zoöphagous patient still keeps up our interest in him.\n",
      "He had only one outburst and that was yesterday at an unusual time. Just\n",
      "_Later._--Another change in my patient. At five o’clock I looked in on\n",
      "“All over! all over! He has deserted me. No hope for me now unless I do\n",
      "it for myself!” Then suddenly turning to me in a resolute way, he said:\n",
      "“Doctor, won’t you be very good to me and let me have a little more\n",
      "“And the flies?” I said.\n",
      "“Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies; therefore I like\n",
      "it.” And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do\n",
      "_Midnight._--Another change in him. I had been to see Miss Westenra,\n",
      "beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows\n",
      "me, so I asked him: “Are you not going to keep flies any more?”\n",
      "“No,” said he; “I am sick of all that rubbish!” He certainly is a\n",
      "We shall see.\n",
      "_Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam._\n",
      "“_4 September._--Patient still better to-day.”\n",
      "_Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam._\n",
      "“_5 September._--Patient greatly improved. Good appetite; sleeps\n",
      "_Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam._\n",
      "“_6 September._--Terrible change for the worse. Come at once; do not\n",
      "lose an hour. I hold over telegram to Holmwood till have seen you.”\n",
      "CHAPTER X\n",
      "_Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._\n",
      "“_6 September._\n",
      "“My dear Art,--\n",
      "“My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.\n",
      "There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\n",
      "Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\n",
      "her that my old master, Van Helsing, the great specialist, was coming to\n",
      "shock to her would mean sudden death, and this, in Lucy’s weak\n",
      "difficulties, all of us, my poor old fellow; but, please God, we shall\n",
      "“Yours ever,\n",
      "“JOHN SEWARD.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_7 September._--The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at\n",
      "Liverpool Street was:--\n",
      "“Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her?”\n",
      "“No,” I said. “I waited till I had seen you, as I said in my telegram. I\n",
      "wrote him a letter simply telling him that you were coming, as Miss\n",
      "Westenra was not so well, and that I should let him know if need be.”\n",
      "“Right, my friend,” he said, “quite right! Better he not know as yet;\n",
      "shall know all. And, my good friend John, let me caution you. You deal\n",
      "as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen,\n",
      "and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what we know here, and here.” He\n",
      "“Why not now?” I asked. “It may do some good; we may arrive at some\n",
      "decision.” He stopped and looked at me, and said:--\n",
      "“My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has\n",
      "and say to you: ‘Look! he’s good corn; he will make good crop when the\n",
      "he used long ago to do at lectures, and said: “The good husbandman tell\n",
      "the work of their life. See you now, friend John? I have sown my corn,\n",
      "and Nature has her work to do in making it sprout; if he sprout at all,\n",
      "there’s some promise; and I wait till the ear begins to swell.” He broke\n",
      "“You were always a careful student, and your case-book was ever more\n",
      "Even if you have not kept the good practise, let me tell you that this\n",
      "Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We\n",
      "When I described Lucy’s symptoms--the same as before, but infinitely\n",
      "Mrs. Westenra met us. She was alarmed, but not nearly so much as I\n",
      "something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an\n",
      "a rule that she should not be present with Lucy or think of her illness\n",
      "I saw again the hand of Nature fighting for life. Van Helsing and I were\n",
      "shown up to Lucy’s room. If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I\n",
      "hear. Van Helsing’s face grew set as marble, and his eyebrows converged\n",
      "Van Helsing beckoned to me, and we went gently out of the room. The\n",
      "closed the door. “My God!” he said; “this is dreadful. There is no time\n",
      "“I am younger and stronger, Professor. It must be me.”\n",
      "“Then get ready at once. I will bring up my bag. I am prepared.”\n",
      "door, and Arthur was stepping quickly in. He rushed up to me, saying in\n",
      "“Jack, I was so anxious. I read between the lines of your letter, and\n",
      "myself. Is not that gentleman Dr. Van Helsing? I am so thankful to you,\n",
      "sir, for coming.” When first the Professor’s eye had lit upon him he had\n",
      "“Sir, you have come in time. You are the lover of our dear miss. She is\n",
      "bad, very, very bad. Nay, my child, do not go like that.” For he\n",
      "suddenly grew pale and sat down in a chair almost fainting. “You are to\n",
      "“What can I do?” asked Arthur hoarsely. “Tell me, and I shall do it. My\n",
      "her.” The Professor has a strongly humorous side, and I could from old\n",
      "“My young sir, I do not ask so much as that--not the last!”\n",
      "“What shall I do?” There was fire in his eyes, and his open nostril\n",
      "quivered with intent. Van Helsing slapped him on the shoulder. “Come!”\n",
      "he said. “You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are better than\n",
      "me, better than my friend John.” Arthur looked bewildered, and the\n",
      "Professor went on by explaining in a kindly way:--\n",
      "“Young miss is bad, very bad. She wants blood, and blood she must have\n",
      "or die. My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform\n",
      "the more young and strong than me”--here Arthur took my hand and wrung\n",
      "so calm and our blood not so bright than yours!” Arthur turned to him\n",
      "“If you only knew how gladly I would die for her you would\n",
      "He stopped, with a sort of choke in his voice.\n",
      "“Good boy!” said Van Helsing. “In the not-so-far-off you will be happy\n",
      "must leave at my sign. Say no word to Madame; you know how it is with\n",
      "her! There must be no shock; any knowledge of this would be one. Come!”\n",
      "We all went up to Lucy’s room. Arthur by direction remained outside.\n",
      "Lucy turned her head and looked at us, but said nothing. She was not\n",
      "to us; that was all. Van Helsing took some things from his bag and laid\n",
      "“Now, little miss, here is your medicine. Drink it off, like a good\n",
      "child. See, I lift you so that to swallow is easy. Yes.” She had made\n",
      "It astonished me how long the drug took to act. This, in fact, marked\n",
      "its potency; and she fell into a deep sleep. When the Professor was\n",
      "satisfied he called Arthur into the room, and bade him strip off his\n",
      "coat. Then he added: “You may take that one little kiss whiles I bring\n",
      "over the table. Friend John, help to me!” So neither of us looked whilst\n",
      "Van Helsing turning to me, said:\n",
      "“He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not\n",
      "Then with swiftness, but with absolute method, Van Helsing performed the\n",
      "back to poor Lucy’s cheeks, and through Arthur’s growing pallor the joy\n",
      "anxious, for the loss of blood was telling on Arthur, strong man as he\n",
      "was. It gave me an idea of what a terrible strain Lucy’s system must\n",
      "have undergone that what weakened Arthur only partially restored her.\n",
      "But the Professor’s face was set, and he stood watch in hand and with\n",
      "his eyes fixed now on the patient and now on Arthur. I could hear my own\n",
      "heart beat. Presently he said in a soft voice: “Do not stir an instant.\n",
      "It is enough. You attend him; I will look to her.” When all was over I\n",
      "could see how much Arthur was weakened. I dressed the wound and took his\n",
      "arm to bring him away, when Van Helsing spoke without turning round--the\n",
      "“The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have\n",
      "presently.” And as he had now finished his operation, he adjusted the\n",
      "could hear the deep hiss of indrawn breath which is one of Van Helsing’s\n",
      "me, saying: “Now take down our brave young lover, give him of the port\n",
      "When Arthur had gone I went back to the room. Lucy was sleeping gently,\n",
      "breast heaved. By the bedside sat Van Helsing, looking at her intently.\n",
      "The velvet band again covered the red mark. I asked the Professor in a\n",
      "“What do you make of that mark on her throat?”\n",
      "“What do you make of it?”\n",
      "“Well?” said Van Helsing.\n",
      "“Well,” said I, “I can make nothing of it.” The Professor stood up. “I\n",
      "must go back to Amsterdam to-night,” he said. “There are books and\n",
      "“Shall I have a nurse?” I asked.\n",
      "“We are the best nurses, you and I. You keep watch all night; see that\n",
      "“May begin?” I said. “What on earth do you mean?”\n",
      "“We shall see!” he answered, as he hurried out. He came back a moment\n",
      "“Remember, she is your charge. If you leave her, and harm befall, you\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary--continued._\n",
      "_8 September._--I sat up all night with Lucy. The opiate worked itself\n",
      "absolute prostration which she had undergone. When I told Mrs. Westenra\n",
      "that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her she\n",
      "“You do not want to go to sleep?”\n",
      "“No; I am afraid.”\n",
      "“Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for.”\n",
      "“Ah, not if you were like me--if sleep was to you a presage of horror!”\n",
      "“A presage of horror! What on earth do you mean?”\n",
      "“But, my dear girl, you may sleep to-night. I am here watching you, and\n",
      "“Ah, I can trust you!” I seized the opportunity, and said: “I promise\n",
      "“You will? Oh, will you really? How good you are to me. Then I will\n",
      "sleep!” And almost at the word she gave a deep sigh of relief, and sank\n",
      "All night long I watched by her. She never stirred, but slept on and on\n",
      "In the early morning her maid came, and I left her in her care and took\n",
      "wire to Van Helsing and to Arthur, telling them of the excellent result\n",
      "past day and night. A telegram came from Van Helsing at Amsterdam whilst\n",
      "I was at dinner, suggesting that I should be at Hillingham to-night, as\n",
      "_9 September_.--I was pretty tired and worn out when I got to\n",
      "Hillingham. For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my\n",
      "“No sitting up to-night for you. You are worn out. I am quite well\n",
      "excellent port. Then Lucy took me upstairs, and showed me a room next\n",
      "her own, where a cozy fire was burning. “Now,” she said, “you must stay\n",
      "So, on her renewing her promise to call me if she should want anything,\n",
      "_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._\n",
      "_9 September._--I feel so happy to-night. I have been so miserably weak,\n",
      "a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky. Somehow Arthur feels very,\n",
      "eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give Love\n",
      "where my thoughts are. If Arthur only knew! My dear, my dear, your ears\n",
      "last night! How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me.\n",
      "And to-night I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and\n",
      "within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me! Thank God!\n",
      "Good-night, Arthur.\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_10 September._--I was conscious of the Professor’s hand on my head, and\n",
      "“And how is our patient?”\n",
      "“Well, when I left her, or rather when she left me,” I answered.\n",
      "“Come, let us see,” he said. And together we went into the room.\n",
      "The blind was down, and I went over to raise it gently, whilst Van\n",
      "Helsing stepped, with his soft, cat-like tread, over to the bed.\n",
      "As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I\n",
      "heard the Professor’s low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a\n",
      "his exclamation of horror, “Gott in Himmel!” needed no enforcement from\n",
      "There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly\n",
      "corpse after a prolonged illness. Van Helsing raised his foot to stamp\n",
      "stood to him, and he put it down again softly. “Quick!” he said. “Bring\n",
      "He wetted the poor white lips with it, and together we rubbed palm and\n",
      "“It is not too late. It beats, though but feebly. All our work is\n",
      "undone; we must begin again. There is no young Arthur here now; I have\n",
      "to call on you yourself this time, friend John.” As he spoke, he was\n",
      "matter how willingly it be given, is a terrible feeling--Van Helsing\n",
      "held up a warning finger. “Do not stir,” he said, “but I fear that with\n",
      "of morphia.” He proceeded then, swiftly and deftly, to carry out his\n",
      "intent. The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge\n",
      "The Professor watched me critically. “That will do,” he said. “Already?”\n",
      "I remonstrated. “You took a great deal more from Art.” To which he\n",
      "“He is her lover, her _fiancé_. You have work, much work, to do for her\n",
      "When we stopped the operation, he attended to Lucy, whilst I applied\n",
      "“Mind, nothing must be said of this. If our young lover should turn up\n",
      "When I came back he looked at me carefully, and then said:--\n",
      "“You are not much the worse. Go into the room, and lie on your sofa, and\n",
      "and over again how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how\n",
      "Lucy slept well into the day, and when she woke she was fairly well and\n",
      "strong, though not nearly so much so as the day before. When Van Helsing\n",
      "Lucy chatted with me freely, and seemed quite unconscious that anything\n",
      "“We owe you so much, Dr. Seward, for all you have done, but you really\n",
      "do!” As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily,\n",
      "Van Helsing returned in a couple of hours, and presently said to me:\n",
      "“Now you go home, and eat much and drink enough. Make yourself strong. I\n",
      "In the hall two of the maids came to me, and asked if they or either of\n",
      "them might not sit up with Miss Lucy. They implored me to let them; and\n",
      "when I said it was Dr. Van Helsing’s wish that either he or I should sit\n",
      "I am weak at present, and perhaps because it was on Lucy’s account, that\n",
      "_11 September._--This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van\n",
      "Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better. Shortly after I had\n",
      "arrived, a big parcel from abroad came for the Professor. He opened it\n",
      "“These are for you, Miss Lucy,” he said.\n",
      "“For me? Oh, Dr. Van Helsing!”\n",
      "“Yes, my dear, but not for you to play with. These are medicines.” Here\n",
      "Lucy made a wry face. “Nay, but they are not to take in a decoction or\n",
      "point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing\n",
      "of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought\n",
      "for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.”\n",
      "Whilst he was speaking, Lucy had been examining the flowers and smelling\n",
      "“Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me. Why,\n",
      "To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his\n",
      "“No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do;\n",
      "others if not for your own.” Then seeing poor Lucy scared, as she might\n",
      "well be, he went on more gently: “Oh, little miss, my dear, do not fear\n",
      "for you. Now sit still awhile. Come with me, friend John, and you shall\n",
      "help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem,\n",
      "where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass-houses all the year.\n",
      "We went into the room, taking the flowers with us. The Professor’s\n",
      "“Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but\n",
      "“Perhaps I am!” he answered quietly as he began to make the wreath which\n",
      "Lucy was to wear round her neck.\n",
      "We then waited whilst Lucy made her toilet for the night, and when she\n",
      "“Take care you do not disturb it; and even if the room feel close, do\n",
      "“I promise,” said Lucy, “and thank you both a thousand times for all\n",
      "your kindness to me! Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such\n",
      "As we left the house in my fly, which was waiting, Van Helsing said:--\n",
      "“To-night I can sleep in peace, and sleep I want--two nights of travel,\n",
      "He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights\n",
      "CHAPTER XI\n",
      "_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._\n",
      "_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.\n",
      "Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He\n",
      "for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no\n",
      "and lying like Ophelia in the play, with “virgin crants and maiden\n",
      "There is peace in its smell; I feel sleep coming already. Good-night,\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_13 September._--Called at the Berkeley and found Van Helsing, as usual,\n",
      "Professor took his bag, which he always brings with him now.\n",
      "Let all be put down exactly. Van Helsing and I arrived at Hillingham at\n",
      "Mrs. Westenra coming out of the morning room. She is always an early\n",
      "“You will be glad to know that Lucy is better. The dear child is still\n",
      "should disturb her.” The Professor smiled, and looked quite jubilant. He\n",
      "“Aha! I thought I had diagnosed the case. My treatment is working,” to\n",
      "“You must not take all the credit to yourself, doctor. Lucy’s state this\n",
      "“How you do mean, ma’am?” asked the Professor.\n",
      "“Well, I was anxious about the dear child in the night, and went into\n",
      "She moved off into her boudoir, where she usually breakfasted early. As\n",
      "she had spoken, I watched the Professor’s face, and saw it turn ashen\n",
      "Then, for the first time in my life, I saw Van Helsing break down. He\n",
      "his arms again, as though appealing to the whole universe. “God! God!\n",
      "God!” he said. “What have we done, what has this poor thing done, that\n",
      "we are so sore beset? Is there fate amongst us still, sent down from the\n",
      "pagan world of old, that such things must be, and in such way? This poor\n",
      "beset! How are all the powers of the devils against us!” Suddenly he\n",
      "jumped to his feet. “Come,” he said, “come, we must see and act. Devils\n",
      "all the same.” He went to the hall-door for his bag; and together we\n",
      "went up to Lucy’s room.\n",
      "Once again I drew up the blind, whilst Van Helsing went towards the bed.\n",
      "This time he did not start as he looked on the poor face with the same\n",
      "“As I expected,” he murmured, with that hissing inspiration of his which\n",
      "warning hand. “No!” he said. “To-day you must operate. I shall provide.\n",
      "You are weakened already.” As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled\n",
      "Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to\n",
      "watched whilst Van Helsing recruited himself and rested.\n",
      "Presently he took an opportunity of telling Mrs. Westenra that she must\n",
      "not remove anything from Lucy’s room without consulting him; that the\n",
      "After another hour Lucy waked from her sleep, fresh and bright and\n",
      "What does it all mean? I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of life\n",
      "_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._\n",
      "_17 September._--Four days and nights of peace. I am getting so strong\n",
      "however, Dr. Van Helsing has been with me, all this bad dreaming seems\n",
      "Haarlem. To-night Dr. Van Helsing is going away, as he has to be for a\n",
      "day in Amsterdam. But I need not be watched; I am well enough to be left\n",
      "alone. Thank God for mother’s sake, and dear Arthur’s, and for all our\n",
      "last night Dr. Van Helsing slept in his chair a lot of the time. I found\n",
      "_“The Pall Mall Gazette,” 18 September._\n",
      "THE ESCAPED WOLF.\n",
      "PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF OUR INTERVIEWER.\n",
      "_Interview with the Keeper in the Zoölogical Gardens._\n",
      "After many inquiries and almost as many refusals, and perpetually using\n",
      "the words “Pall Mall Gazette” as a sort of talisman, I managed to find\n",
      "the keeper of the section of the Zoölogical Gardens in which the wolf\n",
      "department is included. Thomas Bilder lives in one of the cottages in\n",
      "“Now, sir, you can go on and arsk me what you want. You’ll excoose me\n",
      "“How do you mean, ask them questions?” I queried, wishful to get him\n",
      "“’Ittin’ of them over the ’ead with a pole is one way; scratchin’ of\n",
      "arsk the Superintendent if you might arsk me questions. Without offence\n",
      "“You did.”\n",
      "“An’ when you said you’d report me for usin’ of obscene language that\n",
      "as the wolves, and lions, and tigers does. But, Lor’ love yer ’art, now\n",
      "Drive along with your questions. I know what yer a-comin’ at, that ’ere\n",
      "“Exactly. I want you to give me your view of it. Just tell me how it\n",
      "“All right, guv’nor. This ’ere is about the ’ole story. That ’ere wolf\n",
      "what we called Bersicker was one of three grey ones that came from\n",
      "Norway to Jamrach’s, which we bought off him four years ago. He was a\n",
      "“Don’t you mind him, sir!” broke in Mrs. Tom, with a cheery laugh. “’E’s\n",
      "’isself! But there ain’t no ’arm in ’im.”\n",
      "“Well, sir, it was about two hours after feedin’ yesterday when I first\n",
      "away straight. There was Bersicker a-tearin’ like a mad thing at the\n",
      "‘Keeper, these wolves seem upset at something.’\n",
      "“‘Maybe it’s you,’ says I, for I did not like the airs as he give\n",
      "of insolent smile, with a mouth full of white, sharp teeth. ‘Oh no, they\n",
      "“‘Ow yes, they would,’ says I, a-imitatin’ of him. ‘They always likes a\n",
      "“Well, it was a odd thing, but when the animiles see us a-talkin’ they\n",
      "lay down, and when I went over to Bersicker he let me stroke his ears\n",
      "“‘Tyke care,’ says I. ‘Bersicker is quick.’\n",
      "“‘Never mind,’ he says. ‘I’m used to ’em!’\n",
      "“‘Are you in the business yourself?’ I says, tyking off my ’at, for a\n",
      "“‘No,’ says he, ‘not exactly in the business, but I ’ave made pets of\n",
      "several.’ And with that he lifts his ’at as perlite as a lord, and walks\n",
      "away. Old Bersicker kep’ a-lookin’ arter ’im till ’e was out of sight,\n",
      "There warn’t no one near, except some one that was evidently a-callin’ a\n",
      "dog somewheres out back of the gardings in the Park road. Once or twice\n",
      "turnin’ in, an’, bust me, but when I kem opposite to old Bersicker’s\n",
      "“Did any one else see anything?”\n",
      "“One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony,\n",
      "night-a-huntin’ of the Park for Bersicker, that he remembered seein’\n",
      "“Now, Mr. Bilder, can you account in any way for the escape of the\n",
      "“Well, sir,” he said, with a suspicious sort of modesty, “I think I can;\n",
      "“Certainly I shall. If a man like you, who knows the animals from\n",
      "“Well then, sir, I accounts for it this way; it seems to me that ’ere\n",
      "From the hearty way that both Thomas and his wife laughed at the joke I\n",
      "with the worthy Thomas, but I thought I knew a surer way to his heart,\n",
      "“Now, Mr. Bilder, we’ll consider that first half-sovereign worked off,\n",
      "“Right y’are, sir,” he said briskly. “Ye’ll excoose me, I know, for\n",
      "“Well, I never!” said the old lady.\n",
      "“My opinion is this: that ’ere wolf is a-’idin’ of, somewheres. The\n",
      "Lor’ bless you, in real life a wolf is only a low creature, not half so\n",
      "hisself, and more like he’s somewhere round the Park a-’idin’ an’\n",
      "green eyes a-shining at her out of the dark! If he can’t get food he’s\n",
      "against the window, and Mr. Bilder’s face doubled its natural length\n",
      "“God bless me!” he said. “If there ain’t old Bersicker come back by\n",
      "He went to the door and opened it; a most unnecessary proceeding it\n",
      "After all, however, there is nothing like custom, for neither Bilder nor\n",
      "picture-wolves--Red Riding Hood’s quondam friend, whilst moving her\n",
      "The whole scene was an unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos. The\n",
      "wicked wolf that for half a day had paralysed London and set all the\n",
      "prodigal son. Old Bilder examined him all over with most tender\n",
      "“There, I knew the poor old chap would get into some kind of trouble;\n",
      "didn’t I say it all along? Here’s his head all cut and full of broken\n",
      "This ’ere’s what comes of it. Come along, Bersicker.”\n",
      "He took the wolf and locked him up in a cage, with a piece of meat that\n",
      "to-day regarding the strange escapade at the Zoo.\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_17 September._--I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my\n",
      "books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy,\n",
      "into the Superintendent’s study is almost unknown. Without an instant’s\n",
      "Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right and he was\n",
      "placidly, simply repeating over and over again: “The blood is the life!\n",
      "The blood is the life!”\n",
      "late for my physical good, and then the prolonged strain of Lucy’s\n",
      "weary, and I need rest, rest, rest. Happily Van Helsing has not summoned\n",
      "_Telegram, Van Helsing, Antwerp, to Seward, Carfax._\n",
      "(Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given; delivered late by\n",
      "“_17 September._--Do not fail to be at Hillingham to-night. If not\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_18 September._--Just off for train to London. The arrival of Van\n",
      "Helsing’s telegram filled me with dismay. A whole night lost, and I know\n",
      "possible that all may be well, but what _may_ have happened? Surely\n",
      "me, and then I can complete my entry on Lucy’s phonograph.\n",
      "_Memorandum left by Lucy Westenra._\n",
      "_17 September. Night._--I write this and leave it to be seen, so that no\n",
      "I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were placed as Dr.\n",
      "Van Helsing directed, and soon fell asleep.\n",
      "sleep-walking on the cliff at Whitby when Mina saved me, and which now I\n",
      "know so well. I was not afraid, but I did wish that Dr. Seward was in\n",
      "the next room--as Dr. Van Helsing said he would be--so that I might have\n",
      "alone, I opened my door and called out: “Is there anybody there?” There\n",
      "Then outside in the shrubbery I heard a sort of howl like a dog’s, but\n",
      "startled and a little frightened, and cried out: “What is that?” I tried\n",
      "The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the\n",
      "other things, she clutched the wreath of flowers that Dr. Van Helsing\n",
      "The time did not seem long, but very, very awful, till I recovered\n",
      "mother’s breast. When they were there I remembered what Dr. Van Helsing\n",
      "My heart sank when I saw what had happened. They all four lay helpless\n",
      "The air seems full of specks, floating and circling in the draught from\n",
      "the window, and the lights burn blue and dim. What am I to do? God\n",
      "gone! It is time that I go too. Good-bye, dear Arthur, if I should not\n",
      "survive this night. God keep you, dear, and God help me!\n",
      "CHAPTER XII\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY\n",
      "_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.\n",
      "Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently\n",
      "and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\n",
      "tight around us? Was it indeed a house of death to which I had come, too\n",
      "danger to Lucy, if she had had again one of those frightful relapses;\n",
      "gate, and a few seconds later I met Van Helsing running up the avenue.\n",
      "When he saw me, he gasped out:--\n",
      "“Then it was you, and just arrived. How is she? Are we too late? Did you\n",
      "“Then I fear we are too late. God’s will be done!” With his usual\n",
      "recuperative energy, he went on: “Come. If there be no way open to get\n",
      "We went round to the back of the house, where there was a kitchen\n",
      "window. The Professor took a small surgical saw from his case, and\n",
      "opened the window. I helped the Professor in, and followed him. There\n",
      "room left no doubt as to their condition. Van Helsing and I looked at\n",
      "each other, and as we moved away he said: “We can attend to them later.”\n",
      "Then we ascended to Lucy’s room. For an instant or two we paused at the\n",
      "How shall I describe what we saw? On the bed lay two women, Lucy and her\n",
      "fixed upon it. By her side lay Lucy, with face white and still more\n",
      "Without a word the Professor bent over the bed, his head almost touching\n",
      "poor Lucy’s breast; then he gave a quick turn of his head, as of one who\n",
      "“It is not yet too late! Quick! quick! Bring the brandy!”\n",
      "but returned to Van Helsing. He rubbed the brandy, as on another\n",
      "Flick them in the face with a wet towel, and flick them hard. Make them\n",
      "Miss Lucy. So, sobbing and crying, they went about their way, half clad\n",
      "got a bath and carried Lucy out as she was and placed her in it. Whilst\n",
      "with a message from Mr. Holmwood. I bade her simply tell him that he\n",
      "I never saw in all my experience the Professor work in such deadly\n",
      "“If that were all, I would stop here where we are now, and let her fade\n",
      "away into peace, for I see no light in life over her horizon.” He went\n",
      "Presently we both began to be conscious that the heat was beginning to\n",
      "stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement. Van Helsing’s\n",
      "“The first gain is ours! Check to the King!”\n",
      "We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and laid\n",
      "that Van Helsing tied a soft silk handkerchief round her throat. She was\n",
      "Van Helsing called in one of the women, and told her to stay with her\n",
      "“We must consult as to what is to be done,” he said as we descended the\n",
      "death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly\n",
      "enough for our purposes. Van Helsing’s sternness was somewhat relieved\n",
      "“What are we to do now? Where are we to turn for help? We must have\n",
      "“What’s the matter with me, anyhow?”\n",
      "The voice came from the sofa across the room, and its tones brought\n",
      "relief and joy to my heart, for they were those of Quincey Morris. Van\n",
      "Helsing started angrily at the first sound, but his face softened and a\n",
      "glad look came into his eyes as I cried out: “Quincey Morris!” and\n",
      "“What brought you here?” I cried as our hands met.\n",
      "“I guess Art is the cause.”\n",
      "He handed me a telegram:--\n",
      "“Have not heard from Seward for three days, and am terribly anxious.\n",
      "Cannot leave. Father still in same condition. Send me word how Lucy is.\n",
      "Do not delay.--HOLMWOOD.”\n",
      "Van Helsing strode forward, and took his hand, looking him straight in\n",
      "us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.”\n",
      "Once again we went through that ghastly operation. I have not the heart\n",
      "and hear. However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van\n",
      "Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with\n",
      "good effect. Her faint became a profound slumber. The Professor watched\n",
      "whilst I went downstairs with Quincey Morris, and sent one of the maids\n",
      "to pay off one of the cabmen who were waiting. I left Quincey lying down\n",
      "Lucy now was. When I came softly in, I found Van Helsing with a sheet or\n",
      "He handed me the paper saying only: “It dropped from Lucy’s breast when\n",
      "When I had read it, I stood looking at the Professor, and after a pause\n",
      "asked him: “In God’s name, what does it all mean? Was she, or is she,\n",
      "did not know what to say more. Van Helsing put out his hand and took the\n",
      "“Do not trouble about it now. Forget it for the present. You shall know\n",
      "is it that you came to me to say?” This brought me back to fact, and I\n",
      "had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did. I know, and you\n",
      "know, and the other doctor who attended her knows, that Mrs. Westenra\n",
      "“Good, oh my friend John! Well thought of! Truly Miss Lucy, if she be\n",
      "man. Ah yes, I know, friend John; I am not blind! I love you all the\n",
      "more for it! Now go.”\n",
      "In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur telling him\n",
      "that Mrs. Westenra was dead; that Lucy also had been ill, but was now\n",
      "going on better; and that Van Helsing and I were with her. I told him\n",
      "“When you come back, Jack, may I have two words with you all to\n",
      "When I got back Quincey was waiting for me. I told him I would see him\n",
      "as soon as I knew about Lucy, and went up to her room. She was still\n",
      "sleeping, and the Professor seemingly had not moved from his seat at her\n",
      "So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where\n",
      "“Jack Seward, I don’t want to shove myself in anywhere where I’ve no\n",
      "with her? The Dutchman--and a fine old fellow he is; I can see\n",
      "Now I know well that you medical men speak _in camera_, and that a man\n",
      "“That’s so,” I said, and he went on:--\n",
      "“I take it that both you and Van Helsing had done already what I did\n",
      "“That’s so.”\n",
      "“And I guess Art was in it too. When I saw him four days ago down at his\n",
      "since I was on the Pampas and had a mare that I was fond of go to grass\n",
      "betraying confidence, Arthur was the first, is not that so?” As he spoke\n",
      "Professor wished kept secret; but already he knew so much, and guessed\n",
      "in the same phrase: “That’s so.”\n",
      "“And how long has this been going on?”\n",
      "“About ten days.”\n",
      "“Ten days! Then I guess, Jack Seward, that that poor pretty creature\n",
      "of four strong men. Man alive, her whole body wouldn’t hold it.” Then,\n",
      "coming close to me, he spoke in a fierce half-whisper: “What took it\n",
      "I shook my head. “That,” I said, “is the crux. Van Helsing is simply\n",
      "There has been a series of little circumstances which have thrown out\n",
      "all our calculations as to Lucy being properly watched. But these shall\n",
      "not occur again. Here we stay until all be well--or ill.” Quincey held\n",
      "out his hand. “Count me in,” he said. “You and the Dutchman will tell me\n",
      "When she woke late in the afternoon, Lucy’s first movement was to feel\n",
      "in her breast, and, to my surprise, produced the paper which Van Helsing\n",
      "had given me to read. The careful Professor had replaced it where it had\n",
      "come from, lest on waking she should be alarmed. Her eye then lit on Van\n",
      "Helsing and on me too, and gladdened. Then she looked around the room,\n",
      "took the paper from her breast and tore it in two. Van Helsing stepped\n",
      "the fragments. Van Helsing seemed surprised, and his brows gathered as\n",
      "_19 September._--All last night she slept fitfully, being always afraid\n",
      "to sleep, and something weaker when she woke from it. The Professor and\n",
      "unattended. Quincey Morris said nothing about his intention, but I knew\n",
      "When the day came, its searching light showed the ravages in poor Lucy’s\n",
      "slept, and both Van Helsing and I noticed the difference in her, between\n",
      "one. In the afternoon she asked for Arthur, and we telegraphed for him.\n",
      "Quincey went off to meet him at the station.\n",
      "When he arrived it was nearly six o’clock, and the sun was setting full\n",
      "colour to the pale cheeks. When he saw her, Arthur was simply choking\n",
      "It was now nearly one o’clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with\n",
      "this on Lucy’s phonograph. Until six o’clock they are to try to rest. I\n",
      "_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._\n",
      "(Unopened by her.)\n",
      "“_17 September._\n",
      "“My dearest Lucy,--\n",
      "“It seems _an age_ since I heard from you, or indeed since I wrote. You\n",
      "at Exeter there was a carriage waiting for us, and in it, though he had\n",
      "an attack of gout, Mr. Hawkins. He took us to his house, where there\n",
      "dinner Mr. Hawkins said:--\n",
      "“‘My dears, I want to drink your health and prosperity; and may every\n",
      "my will I have left you everything.’ I cried, Lucy dear, as Jonathan and\n",
      "“So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my\n",
      "housekeeping. Jonathan and Mr. Hawkins are busy all day; for, now that\n",
      "Jonathan is a partner, Mr. Hawkins wants to tell him all about the\n",
      "“How is your dear mother getting on? I wish I could run up to town for a\n",
      "shoulders; and Jonathan wants looking after still. He is beginning to\n",
      "placidity. However, thank God, these occasions grow less frequent as the\n",
      "and is it to be a public or a private wedding? Tell me all about it,\n",
      "junior partner of the important firm Hawkins & Harker; and so, as you\n",
      "Lucy, and all blessings on you.\n",
      "“Yours,\n",
      "“MINA HARKER.”\n",
      "_Report from Patrick Hennessey, M. D., M. R. C. S. L. K. Q. C. P. I.,\n",
      "etc., etc., to John Seward, M. D._\n",
      "“_20 September._\n",
      "“My dear Sir,--\n",
      "“In accordance with your wishes, I enclose report of the conditions of\n",
      "everything left in my charge.... With regard to patient, Renfield, there\n",
      "Renfield’s room, the patient began to rate him from within, and called\n",
      "mind as to what kind of a place he had got to by saying: ‘Lor’ bless\n",
      "beast like that.’ Then he asked his way civilly enough, and I told him\n",
      "on him, he began to shout: ‘I’ll frustrate them! They shan’t rob me!\n",
      "they shan’t murder me by inches! I’ll fight for my Lord and Master!’ and\n",
      "room. One of the attendants, Hardy, had a finger broken. However, I set\n",
      "“The two carriers were at first loud in their threats of actions for\n",
      "follows:--Jack Smollet, of Dudding’s Rents, King George’s Road, Great\n",
      "Walworth, and Thomas Snelling, Peter Farley’s Row, Guide Court, Bethnal\n",
      "Green. They are both in the employment of Harris & Sons, Moving and\n",
      "Shipment Company, Orange Master’s Yard, Soho.\n",
      "“Believe me, dear Sir,\n",
      "“Yours faithfully,\n",
      "“PATRICK HENNESSEY.”\n",
      "_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra_.\n",
      "(Unopened by her.)\n",
      "“_18 September._\n",
      "“My dearest Lucy,--\n",
      "“Such a sad blow has befallen us. Mr. Hawkins has died very suddenly.\n",
      "Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him\n",
      "Jonathan is greatly distressed. It is not only that he feels sorrow,\n",
      "dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on another account. He says the\n",
      "the midst of your own happiness; but, Lucy dear, I must tell some one,\n",
      "for the strain of keeping up a brave and cheerful appearance to Jonathan\n",
      "up to London, as we must do the day after to-morrow; for poor Mr.\n",
      "Hawkins left in his will that he was to be buried in the grave with his\n",
      "father. As there are no relations at all, Jonathan will have to be chief\n",
      "“Your loving\n",
      "“MINA HARKER.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_20 September._--Only resolution and habit can let me make an entry\n",
      "been flapping those grim wings to some purpose of late--Lucy’s mother\n",
      "and Arthur’s father, and now.... Let me get on with my work.\n",
      "I duly relieved Van Helsing in his watch over Lucy. We wanted Arthur to\n",
      "all break down for want of rest, lest Lucy should suffer, that he agreed\n",
      "to go. Van Helsing was very kind to him. “Come, my child,” he said;\n",
      "Come to the drawing-room, where there is a big fire, and there are two\n",
      "sleep.” Arthur went off with him, casting back a longing look on Lucy’s\n",
      "should be. I could see that the Professor had carried out in this room,\n",
      "window-sashes reeked with it, and round Lucy’s neck, over the silk\n",
      "handkerchief which Van Helsing made her keep on, was a rough chaplet of\n",
      "I found that Lucy had moved slightly, and had torn away the garlic\n",
      "Presently she woke, and I gave her food, as Van Helsing had prescribed.\n",
      "She took but a little, and that languidly. There did not seem to be with\n",
      "At six o’clock Van Helsing came to relieve me. Arthur had then fallen\n",
      "into a doze, and he mercifully let him sleep on. When he saw Lucy’s face\n",
      "sharp whisper: “Draw up the blind; I want light!” Then he bent down,\n",
      "and, with his face almost touching Lucy’s, examined her carefully. He\n",
      "he did so he started back, and I could hear his ejaculation, “Mein\n",
      "Gott!” as it was smothered in his throat. I bent over and looked, too,\n",
      "The wounds on the throat had absolutely disappeared.\n",
      "For fully five minutes Van Helsing stood looking at her, with his face\n",
      "“She is dying. It will not be long now. It will be much difference, mark\n",
      "he thought he was late, and expressed his fear. I assured him that Lucy\n",
      "was still asleep, but told him as gently as I could that both Van\n",
      "Helsing and I feared that the end was near. He covered his face with his\n",
      "shook with grief. I took him by the hand and raised him up. “Come,” I\n",
      "When we came into Lucy’s room I could see that Van Helsing had, with\n",
      "everything look as pleasing as possible. He had even brushed Lucy’s\n",
      "“Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come!” He was stooping to\n",
      "kiss her, when Van Helsing motioned him back. “No,” he whispered, “not\n",
      "yet! Hold her hand; it will comfort her more.”\n",
      "So Arthur took her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best,\n",
      "And then insensibly there came the strange change which I had noticed in\n",
      "“Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!” Arthur bent\n",
      "eagerly over to kiss her; but at that instant Van Helsing, who, like me,\n",
      "“Not for your life!” he said; “not for your living soul and hers!” And\n",
      "Arthur was so taken aback that he did not for a moment know what to do\n",
      "I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as\n",
      "Very shortly after she opened her eyes in all their softness, and\n",
      "putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing’s great brown\n",
      "one; drawing it to her, she kissed it. “My true friend,” she said, in a\n",
      "faint voice, but with untellable pathos, “My true friend, and his! Oh,\n",
      "hand, as one who registers an oath. Then he turned to Arthur, and said\n",
      "to him: “Come, my child, take her hand in yours, and kiss her on the\n",
      "Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted.\n",
      "Lucy’s eyes closed; and Van Helsing, who had been watching closely, took\n",
      "Arthur’s arm, and drew him away.\n",
      "And then Lucy’s breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it\n",
      "“It is all over,” said Van Helsing. “She is dead!”\n",
      "I took Arthur by the arm, and led him away to the drawing-room, where he\n",
      "I went back to the room, and found Van Helsing looking at poor Lucy, and\n",
      "Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had\n",
      "“We thought her dying whilst she slept,\n",
      "And sleeping when she died.”\n",
      "I stood beside Van Helsing, and said:--\n",
      "“Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!”\n",
      "He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:--\n",
      "“Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!”\n",
      "When I asked him what he meant, he only shook his head and answered:--\n",
      "“We can do nothing as yet. Wait and see.”\n",
      "CHAPTER XIII\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_.\n",
      "The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\n",
      "Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to\n",
      "“She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It’s quite a privilege to\n",
      "I noticed that Van Helsing never kept far away. This was possible from\n",
      "at hand; and as Arthur had to be back the next day to attend at his\n",
      "bidden. Under the circumstances, Van Helsing and I took it upon\n",
      "ourselves to examine papers, etc. He insisted upon looking over Lucy’s\n",
      "foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and\n",
      "As he spoke he took from his pocket-book the memorandum which had been\n",
      "in Lucy’s breast, and which she had torn in her sleep.\n",
      "“When you find anything of the solicitor who is for the late Mrs.\n",
      "Westenra, seal all her papers, and write him to-night. For me, I watch\n",
      "here in the room and in Miss Lucy’s old room all night, and I myself\n",
      "the name and address of Mrs. Westenra’s solicitor and had written to\n",
      "letter, when, to my surprise, Van Helsing walked into the room,\n",
      "“Can I help you, friend John? I am free, and if I may, my service is to\n",
      "“Have you got what you looked for?” I asked, to which he replied:--\n",
      "When we had finished the work in hand, he said to me:--\n",
      "“And now, friend John, I think we may to bed. We want sleep, both you\n",
      "Before turning in we went to look at poor Lucy. The undertaker had\n",
      "winding-sheet was laid over the face; when the Professor bent over and\n",
      "wax candles showing a sufficient light to note it well. All Lucy’s\n",
      "The Professor looked sternly grave. He had not loved her as I had, and\n",
      "there was no need for tears in his eyes. He said to me: “Remain till I\n",
      "“To-morrow I want you to bring me, before night, a set of post-mortem\n",
      "“Must we make an autopsy?” I asked.\n",
      "“Yes and no. I want to operate, but not as you think. Let me tell you\n",
      "her heart. Ah! you a surgeon, and so shocked! You, whom I have seen with\n",
      "the rest shudder. Oh, but I must not forget, my dear friend John, that\n",
      "Arthur I must not; he will be free after his father’s funeral to-morrow,\n",
      "“But why do it at all? The girl is dead. Why mutilate her poor body\n",
      "without need? And if there is no necessity for a post-mortem and nothing\n",
      "knowledge--why do it? Without such it is monstrous.”\n",
      "For answer he put his hand on my shoulder, and said, with infinite\n",
      "“Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart; and I love you the more\n",
      "send for me when the great trouble came? Yes! Were you not amazed, nay\n",
      "horrified, when I would not let Arthur kiss his love--though she was\n",
      "dying--and snatched him away by all my strength? Yes! And yet you saw\n",
      "weak, and she kiss my rough old hand and bless me? Yes! And did you not\n",
      "hear me swear promise to her, that so she closed her eyes grateful? Yes!\n",
      "“Well, I have good reason now for all I want to do. You have for many\n",
      "John. If you trust me not, then I must tell what I think; and that is\n",
      "oh! so lonely when I want all help and courage that may be!” He paused a\n",
      "moment and went on solemnly: “Friend John, there are strange and\n",
      "her back towards me, so did not see me--and go into the room where Lucy\n",
      "I must have slept long and soundly, for it was broad daylight when Van\n",
      "Helsing waked me by coming into my room. He came over to my bedside and\n",
      "“You need not trouble about the knives; we shall not do it.”\n",
      "“Why not?” I asked. For his solemnity of the night before had greatly\n",
      "“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. See!” Here he\n",
      "held up the little golden crucifix. “This was stolen in the night.”\n",
      "“How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?”\n",
      "“Because I get it back from the worthless wretch who stole it, from the\n",
      "He went away on the word, leaving me with a new mystery to think of, a\n",
      "The forenoon was a dreary time, but at noon the solicitor came: Mr.\n",
      "Marquand, of Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale. He was very genial\n",
      "cares as to details. During lunch he told us that Mrs. Westenra had for\n",
      "entailed property of Lucy’s father’s which now, in default of direct\n",
      "real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood. When he had\n",
      "“Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and\n",
      "Frankly, however, I must admit that in this case any other form of\n",
      "treated at her decease as under intestacy. In which case Lord Godalming,\n",
      "He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part--in which\n",
      "He did not remain long, but said he would look in later in the day and\n",
      "see Lord Godalming. His coming, however, had been a certain comfort to\n",
      "once. Van Helsing ordered the former arrangement to be adhered to,\n",
      "explaining that, as Lord Godalming was coming very soon, it would be\n",
      "the night before, so that when Arthur came such shocks to his feelings\n",
      "Poor fellow! He looked desperately sad and broken; even his stalwart\n",
      "bitter blow to him. With me he was warm as ever, and to Van Helsing he\n",
      "constraint with him. The Professor noticed it, too, and motioned me to\n",
      "“You loved her too, old fellow; she told me all about it, and there was\n",
      "Here he suddenly broke down, and threw his arms round my shoulders and\n",
      "“Oh, Jack! Jack! What shall I do! The whole of life seems gone from me\n",
      "“Come and look at her.”\n",
      "Together we moved over to the bed, and I lifted the lawn from her face.\n",
      "God! how beautiful she was. Every hour seemed to be enhancing her\n",
      "loveliness. It frightened and amazed me somewhat; and as for Arthur, he\n",
      "“Jack, is she really dead?”\n",
      "I left him in the drawing-room, and told Van Helsing that he had said\n",
      "came out of the room again I told him of Arthur’s question, and he\n",
      "We all dined together, and I could see that poor Art was trying to make\n",
      "the best of things. Van Helsing had been silent all dinner-time; but\n",
      "“Lord----”; but Arthur interrupted him:--\n",
      "“No, no, not that, for God’s sake! not yet at any rate. Forgive me, sir:\n",
      "The Professor answered very sweetly:--\n",
      "‘Mr.,’ and I have grown to love you--yes, my dear boy, to love you--as\n",
      "Arthur.”\n",
      "Arthur held out his hand, and took the old man’s warmly.\n",
      "“Call me what you will,” he said. “I hope I may always have the title of\n",
      "your goodness to my poor dear.” He paused a moment, and went on: “I know\n",
      "Professor nodded--“you must forgive me.”\n",
      "He answered with a grave kindness:--\n",
      "“And, indeed, indeed, sir,” said Arthur warmly, “I shall in all ways\n",
      "Jack’s friend, and you were hers. You shall do what you like.”\n",
      "The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to\n",
      "“May I ask you something now?”\n",
      "“Certainly.”\n",
      "“You know that Mrs. Westenra left you all her property?”\n",
      "“No, poor dear; I never thought of it.”\n",
      "“And as it is all yours, you have a right to deal with it as you will. I\n",
      "want you to give me permission to read all Miss Lucy’s papers and\n",
      "Lucy’s sake?”\n",
      "Arthur spoke out heartily, like his old self:--\n",
      "“Dr. Van Helsing, you may do what you will. I feel that in saying this I\n",
      "The old Professor stood up as he said solemnly:--\n",
      "“And you are right. There will be pain for us all; but it will not be\n",
      "I slept on a sofa in Arthur’s room that night. Van Helsing did not go to\n",
      "never out of sight of the room where Lucy lay in her coffin, strewn with\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_22 September._--In the train to Exeter. Jonathan sleeping.\n",
      "It seems only yesterday that the last entry was made, and yet how much\n",
      "between then, in Whitby and all the world before me, Jonathan away and\n",
      "no news of him; and now, married to Jonathan, Jonathan a solicitor, a\n",
      "partner, rich, master of his business, Mr. Hawkins dead and buried, and\n",
      "Jonathan with another attack that may harm him. Some day he may ask me\n",
      "The service was very simple and very solemn. There were only ourselves\n",
      "and the servants there, one or two old friends of his from Exeter, his\n",
      "London agent, and a gentleman representing Sir John Paxton, the\n",
      "President of the Incorporated Law Society. Jonathan and I stood hand in\n",
      "We came back to town quietly, taking a ’bus to Hyde Park Corner.\n",
      "Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while, so\n",
      "of the empty chair at home; so we got up and walked down Piccadilly.\n",
      "Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days\n",
      "pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he\n",
      "girl, in a big cart-wheel hat, sitting in a victoria outside Guiliano’s,\n",
      "when I felt Jonathan clutch my arm so tight that he hurt me, and he said\n",
      "under his breath: “My God!” I am always anxious about Jonathan, for I\n",
      "He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and\n",
      "Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I\n",
      "Jonathan why he was disturbed, and he answered, evidently thinking that\n",
      "I knew as much about it as he did: “Do you see who it is?”\n",
      "“No, dear,” I said; “I don’t know him; who is it?” His answer seemed to\n",
      "to me, Mina, to whom he was speaking:--\n",
      "“It is the man himself!”\n",
      "The poor dear was evidently terrified at something--very greatly\n",
      "moved up Piccadilly he followed in the same direction, and hailed a\n",
      "“I believe it is the Count, but he has grown young. My God, if this be\n",
      "so! Oh, my God! my God! If I only knew! if I only knew!” He was\n",
      "further, and then went in and sat for a while in the Green Park. It was\n",
      "After a few minutes’ staring at nothing, Jonathan’s eyes closed, and he\n",
      "“Why, Mina, have I been asleep! Oh, do forgive me for being so rude.\n",
      "Come, and we’ll have a cup of tea somewhere.” He had evidently forgotten\n",
      "must open that parcel, and know what is written. Oh, Jonathan, you will,\n",
      "_Later._--A sad home-coming in every way--the house empty of the dear\n",
      "soul who was so good to us; Jonathan still pale and dizzy under a slight\n",
      "relapse of his malady; and now a telegram from Van Helsing, whoever he\n",
      "“You will be grieved to hear that Mrs. Westenra died five days ago, and\n",
      "that Lucy died the day before yesterday. They were both buried to-day.”\n",
      "Oh, what a wealth of sorrow in a few words! Poor Mrs. Westenra! poor\n",
      "Lucy! Gone, gone, never to return to us! And poor, poor Arthur, to have\n",
      "lost such sweetness out of his life! God help us all to bear our\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_22 September._--It is all over. Arthur has gone back to Ring, and has\n",
      "taken Quincey Morris with him. What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe\n",
      "in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any\n",
      "of us; but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America\n",
      "indeed. Van Helsing is lying down, having a rest preparatory to his\n",
      "journey. He goes over to Amsterdam to-night, but says he returns\n",
      "he has work to do in London which may take him some time. Poor old\n",
      "standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was speaking of his part in\n",
      "the operation where his blood had been transfused to his Lucy’s veins; I\n",
      "could see Van Helsing’s face grow white and purple by turns. Arthur was\n",
      "and that she was his wife in the sight of God. None of us said a word of\n",
      "the other operations, and none of us ever shall. Arthur and Quincey went\n",
      "away together to the station, and Van Helsing and I came on here. The\n",
      "manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face grew\n",
      "His reply was in a way characteristic of him, for it was logical and\n",
      "“Ah, you don’t comprehend, friend John. Do not think that I am not sad,\n",
      "door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not the true laughter. No! he is a\n",
      "time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.’ Behold, in example I grieve my\n",
      "coffin and say ‘Thud! thud!’ to my heart, till it send back the blood\n",
      "John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son--yet even\n",
      "at such moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear,\n",
      "‘Here I am! here I am!’ till the blood come dance back and bring some of\n",
      "the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is\n",
      "troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the\n",
      "make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that\n",
      "become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the\n",
      "“Oh, it was the grim irony of it all--this so lovely lady garlanded with\n",
      "who loved her, and whom she loved; and that sacred bell going ‘Toll!\n",
      "for what? She is dead; so! Is it not?”\n",
      "“Well, for the life of me, Professor,” I said, “I can’t see anything to\n",
      "Art and his trouble? Why, his heart was simply breaking.”\n",
      "“Just so. Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins had\n",
      "“Yes, and it was a sweet and comforting idea for him.”\n",
      "“Quite so. But there was a difficulty, friend John. If so that, then\n",
      "what about the others? Ho, ho! Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist,\n",
      "and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church’s law, though\n",
      "“Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others\n",
      "If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh;\n",
      "now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him--for\n",
      "“Because I know!”\n",
      "And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will\n",
      "London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill,\n",
      "So I can finish this diary; and God only knows if I shall ever begin\n",
      "“FINIS.”\n",
      "_“The Westminster Gazette,” 25 September._\n",
      "A HAMPSTEAD MYSTERY.\n",
      "The neighbourhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a\n",
      "was known to the writers of headlines as “The Kensington Horror,” or\n",
      "“The Stabbing Woman,” or “The Woman in Black.” During the past two or\n",
      "home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all\n",
      "is that they had been with a “bloofer lady.” It has always been late in\n",
      "that even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of\n",
      "There is, however, possibly a serious side to the question, for some of\n",
      "when very young, in and around Hampstead Heath, and for any stray dog\n",
      "_“The Westminster Gazette,” 25 September._\n",
      "_Extra Special._\n",
      "THE HAMPSTEAD HORROR.\n",
      "ANOTHER CHILD INJURED.\n",
      "_The “Bloofer Lady.”_\n",
      "We have just received intelligence that another child, missed last\n",
      "Shooter’s Hill side of Hampstead Heath, which is, perhaps, less\n",
      "CHAPTER XIV\n",
      "MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that\n",
      "and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his\n",
      "_24 September_.--I hadn’t the heart to write last night; that terrible\n",
      "record of Jonathan’s upset me so. Poor dear! How he must have suffered,\n",
      "we saw yesterday! He seemed quite certain of him.... Poor fellow! I\n",
      "wedding-day he said: “Unless some solemn duty come upon me to go back to\n",
      "the bitter hours, asleep or awake, mad or sane.” There seems to be\n",
      "through it all some thread of continuity.... That fearful Count was\n",
      "coming to London.... If it should be, and he came to London, with his\n",
      "poor Jonathan may not be upset, for I can speak for him and never let\n",
      "him be troubled or worried with it at all. If ever Jonathan quite gets\n",
      "_Letter, Van Helsing to Mrs. Harker._\n",
      "“_24 September._\n",
      "(_Confidence_)\n",
      "“Dear Madam,--\n",
      "sent to you sad news of Miss Lucy Westenra’s death. By the kindness of\n",
      "Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am\n",
      "love her. Oh, Madam Mina, by that love, I implore you, help me. It is\n",
      "be that I see you? You can trust me. I am friend of Dr. John Seward and\n",
      "of Lord Godalming (that was Arthur of Miss Lucy). I must keep it private\n",
      "for the present from all. I should come to Exeter to see you at once if\n",
      "pardon, madam. I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good\n",
      "“VAN HELSING.”\n",
      "_Telegram, Mrs. Harker to Van Helsing._\n",
      "“_25 September._--Come to-day by quarter-past ten train if you can catch\n",
      "“WILHELMINA HARKER.”\n",
      "MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL.\n",
      "_25 September._--I cannot help feeling terribly excited as the time\n",
      "draws near for the visit of Dr. Van Helsing, for somehow I expect that\n",
      "it will throw some light upon Jonathan’s sad experience; and as he\n",
      "attended poor dear Lucy in her last illness, he can tell me all about\n",
      "her. That is the reason of his coming; it is concerning Lucy and her\n",
      "sleep-walking, and not about Jonathan. Then I shall never know the real\n",
      "truth now! How silly I am. That awful journal gets hold of my\n",
      "course it is about Lucy. That habit came back to the poor dear, and that\n",
      "understand. I hope I did right in not saying anything of it to Mrs.\n",
      "Westenra; I should never forgive myself if any act of mine, were it even\n",
      "a negative one, brought harm on poor dear Lucy. I hope, too, Dr. Van\n",
      "Helsing will not blame me; I have had so much trouble and anxiety of\n",
      "then Jonathan went away this morning to stay away from me a whole day\n",
      "now. I shall say nothing of Jonathan’s journal unless he asks me. I am\n",
      "about Lucy, I can hand it to him; it will save much questioning.\n",
      "_Later._--He has come and gone. Oh, what a strange meeting, and how it\n",
      "possible, or even a part of it? If I had not read Jonathan’s journal\n",
      "Jonathan! How he must have suffered. Please the good God, all this may\n",
      "satisfied and better able to bear the shock. Dr. Van Helsing must be a\n",
      "good man as well as a clever one if he is Arthur’s friend and Dr.\n",
      "Seward’s, and if they brought him all the way from Holland to look after\n",
      "Lucy. I feel from having seen him that he _is_ good and kind and of a\n",
      "noble nature. When he comes to-morrow I shall ask him about Jonathan;\n",
      "and then, please God, all this sorrow and anxiety may lead to a good\n",
      "end. I used to think I would like to practise interviewing; Jonathan’s\n",
      "friend on “The Exeter News” told him that memory was everything in such\n",
      "It was half-past two o’clock when the knock came. I took my courage _à\n",
      "deux mains_ and waited. In a few minutes Mary opened the door, and\n",
      "announced “Dr. Van Helsing.”\n",
      "“Mrs. Harker, is it not?” I bowed assent.\n",
      "“That was Miss Mina Murray?” Again I assented.\n",
      "“It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was friend of that poor dear\n",
      "child Lucy Westenra. Madam Mina, it is on account of the dead I come.”\n",
      "“Sir,” I said, “you could have no better claim on me than that you were\n",
      "a friend and helper of Lucy Westenra.” And I held out my hand. He took\n",
      "“Oh, Madam Mina, I knew that the friend of that poor lily girl must be\n",
      "good, but I had yet to learn----” He finished his speech with a courtly\n",
      "“I have read your letters to Miss Lucy. Forgive me, but I had to begin\n",
      "with her at Whitby. She sometimes kept a diary--you need not look\n",
      "surprised, Madam Mina; it was begun after you had left, and was in\n",
      "“I can tell you, I think, Dr. Van Helsing, all about it.”\n",
      "“Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always\n",
      "“No, doctor, but I wrote it all down at the time. I can show it to you\n",
      "“Oh, Madam Mina, I will be grateful; you will do me much favour.” I\n",
      "“May I read it?”\n",
      "“If you wish,” I answered as demurely as I could. He opened it, and for\n",
      "“Oh, you so clever woman!” he said. “I knew long that Mr. Jonathan was a\n",
      "And will you not so much honour me and so help me as to read it for me?\n",
      "Alas! I know not the shorthand.” By this time my little joke was over,\n",
      "“Forgive me,” I said: “I could not help it; but I had been thinking that\n",
      "it was of dear Lucy that you wished to ask, and so that you might not\n",
      "He took it and his eyes glistened. “You are so good,” he said. “And may\n",
      "“By all means,” I said, “read it over whilst I order lunch; and then you\n",
      "can ask me questions whilst we eat.” He bowed and settled himself in a\n",
      "“Oh, Madam Mina,” he said, “how can I say what I owe to you? This paper\n",
      "clever woman. Madam”--he said this very solemnly--“if ever Abraham Van\n",
      "Helsing can do anything for you or yours, I trust you will let me know.\n",
      "It will be pleasure and delight if I may serve you as a friend; as a\n",
      "“But, doctor, you praise me too much, and--and you do not know me.”\n",
      "“Not know you--I, who am old, and who have studied all my life men and\n",
      "him and all that follow from him! And I have read your diary that you\n",
      "line. I, who have read your so sweet letter to poor Lucy of your\n",
      "marriage and your trust, not know you! Oh, Madam Mina, good women tell\n",
      "husband--tell me of him. Is he quite well? Is all that fever gone, and\n",
      "Jonathan, so I said:--\n",
      "“He was almost recovered, but he has been greatly upset by Mr. Hawkins’s\n",
      "death.” He interrupted:--\n",
      "“Oh, yes, I know, I know. I have read your last two letters.” I went\n",
      "“I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on Thursday last he\n",
      "“A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That was not good. What kind of\n",
      "“He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something\n",
      "which led to his brain fever.” And here the whole thing seemed to\n",
      "overwhelm me in a rush. The pity for Jonathan, the horror which he\n",
      "“My life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not\n",
      "my friend John Seward I have known so many good people and seen such\n",
      "Husband Jonathan would not like to see you so pale; and what he like not\n",
      "and smile. You have told me all about Lucy, and so now we shall not\n",
      "speak of it, lest it distress. I shall stay in Exeter to-night, for I\n",
      "husband Jonathan’s trouble so far as you can, but not yet. You must eat\n",
      "After lunch, when we went back to the drawing-room, he said to me:--\n",
      "“And now tell me all about him.” When it came to speaking to this great\n",
      "Jonathan a madman--that journal is all so strange--and I hesitated to go\n",
      "“Dr. Van Helsing, what I have to tell you is so queer that you must not\n",
      "have even half believed some very strange things.” He reassured me by\n",
      "“Oh, my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which\n",
      "“Thank you, thank you, a thousand times! You have taken a weight off my\n",
      "Jonathan’s. It is the copy of his journal when abroad, and all that\n",
      "“Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must come to lunch\n",
      "will leave you at Paddington before eight.” He was surprised at my\n",
      "up all the trains to and from Exeter, so that I may help Jonathan in\n",
      "So he took the papers with him and went away, and I sit here\n",
      "_Letter (by hand), Van Helsing to Mrs. Harker._\n",
      "“_25 September, 6 o’clock._\n",
      "“Dear Madam Mina,--\n",
      "“Yours the most faithful,\n",
      "“ABRAHAM VAN HELSING.”\n",
      "_Letter, Mrs. Harker to Van Helsing._\n",
      "“_25 September, 6:30 p. m._\n",
      "“My dear Dr. Van Helsing,--\n",
      "in London! I fear to think. I have this moment, whilst writing, had a\n",
      "wire from Jonathan, saying that he leaves by the 6:25 to-night from\n",
      "Launceston and will be here at 10:18, so that I shall have no fear\n",
      "to breakfast at eight o’clock, if this be not too early for you? You can\n",
      "you to Paddington by 2:35. Do not answer this, as I shall take it that,\n",
      "“Believe me,\n",
      "“Your faithful and grateful friend,\n",
      "“MINA HARKER.”\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_26 September._--I thought never to write in this diary again, but the\n",
      "time has come. When I got home last night Mina had supper ready, and\n",
      "when we had supped she told me of Van Helsing’s visit, and of her having\n",
      "of the Count. He has succeeded after all, then, in his design in getting\n",
      "to London, and it was he I saw. He has got younger, and how? Van Helsing\n",
      "Mina says. We sat late, and talked it all over. Mina is dressing, and I\n",
      "He was, I think, surprised to see me. When I came into the room where he\n",
      "“But Madam Mina told me you were ill, that you had had a shock.” It was\n",
      "so funny to hear my wife called “Madam Mina” by this kindly,\n",
      "“And how?”\n",
      "“By your letter to Mina last night. I was in doubt, and then everything\n",
      "yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.” He\n",
      "“So! You are physiognomist. I learn more here with each hour. I am with\n",
      "would listen to him go on praising Mina for a day, so I simply nodded\n",
      "“She is one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and\n",
      "selfish. And you, sir--I have read all the letters to poor Miss Lucy,\n",
      "will give me your hand, will you not? And let us be friends for all our\n",
      "We shook hands, and he was so earnest and so kind that it made me quite\n",
      "“And now,” he said, “may I ask you for some more help? I have a great\n",
      "Can you tell me what went before your going to Transylvania? Later on I\n",
      "“Look here, sir,” I said, “does what you have to do concern the Count?”\n",
      "“It does,” he said solemnly.\n",
      "“Then I am with you heart and soul. As you go by the 10:30 train, you\n",
      "You can take them with you and read them in the train.”\n",
      "After breakfast I saw him to the station. When we were parting he\n",
      "“Perhaps you will come to town if I send to you, and take Madam Mina\n",
      "“We shall both come when you will,” I said.\n",
      "I had got him the morning papers and the London papers of the previous\n",
      "catch something in one of them, “The Westminster Gazette”--I knew it by\n",
      "groaning to himself: “Mein Gott! Mein Gott! So soon! so soon!” I do not\n",
      "the window and waved his hand, calling out: “Love to Madam Mina; I shall\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_26 September._--Truly there is no such thing as finality. Not a week\n",
      "since I said “Finis,” and yet here I am starting fresh again, or rather\n",
      "to me. I had a letter from Arthur, written on Sunday, and from it I\n",
      "gather that he is bearing up wonderfully well. Quincey Morris is with\n",
      "Arthur is beginning to recover something of his old buoyancy; so as to\n",
      "fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming\n",
      "end God only knows. I have an idea that Van Helsing thinks he knows,\n",
      "went to Exeter yesterday, and stayed there all night. To-day he came\n",
      "and thrust last night’s “Westminster Gazette” into my hand.\n",
      "“What do you think of that?” he asked as he stood back and folded his\n",
      "away at Hampstead. It did not convey much to me, until I reached a\n",
      "idea struck me, and I looked up. “Well?” he said.\n",
      "“It is like poor Lucy’s.”\n",
      "“And what do you make of it?”\n",
      "“Simply that there is some cause in common. Whatever it was that injured\n",
      "“That is true indirectly, but not directly.”\n",
      "“How do you mean, Professor?” I asked. I was a little inclined to take\n",
      "despair about poor Lucy, had he looked more stern.\n",
      "“Tell me!” I said. “I can hazard no opinion. I do not know what to\n",
      "“Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to\n",
      "what poor Lucy died of; not after all the hints given, not only by\n",
      "“Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.”\n",
      "“And how the blood lost or waste?” I shook my head. He stepped over and\n",
      "“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold;\n",
      "and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But\n",
      "believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor\n",
      "in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in\n",
      "“Yes,” I said. “Charcot has proved that pretty well.” He smiled as he\n",
      "went on: “Then you are satisfied as to it. Yes? And of course then you\n",
      "Charcot--alas that he is no more!--into the very soul of the patient\n",
      "that he influence. No? Then, friend John, am I to take it that you\n",
      "be a blank? No? Then tell me--for I am student of the brain--how you\n",
      "Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and ‘Old Parr’ one hundred and\n",
      "sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men’s blood in her poor\n",
      "veins, could not live even one day? For, had she live one more day, we\n",
      "could have save her. Do you know all the mystery of life and death? Do\n",
      "qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others? Can you tell me\n",
      "for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew,\n",
      "till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps? Can\n",
      "you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that\n",
      "veins; how in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang\n",
      "found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?”\n",
      "“Good God, Professor!” I said, starting up. “Do you mean to tell me that\n",
      "Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London\n",
      "in the nineteenth century?” He waved his hand for silence, and went\n",
      "“Can you tell me why the tortoise lives more long than generations of\n",
      "Can you tell me why men believe in all ages and places that there are\n",
      "women who cannot die? We all know--because science has vouched for the\n",
      "the world. Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die\n",
      "come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian\n",
      "fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?” Here\n",
      "some lesson, as long ago he used to do in his study at Amsterdam; but\n",
      "“Professor, let me be your pet student again. Tell me the thesis, so\n",
      "“That is good image,” he said. “Well, I shall tell you. My thesis is\n",
      "“To believe what?”\n",
      "“To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once\n",
      "of an American who so defined faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to\n",
      "believe things which we know to be untrue.’ For one, I follow that man.\n",
      "He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of\n",
      "truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value\n",
      "“Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the\n",
      "“Ah, you are my favourite pupil still. It is worth to teach you. Now\n",
      "throats were made by the same that made the hole in Miss Lucy?”\n",
      "“I suppose so.” He stood up and said solemnly:--\n",
      "“Then you are wrong. Oh, would it were so! but alas! no. It is worse,\n",
      "“In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?” I cried.\n",
      "He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his\n",
      "“They were made by Miss Lucy!”\n",
      "CHAPTER XV\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_.\n",
      "For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\n",
      "struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\n",
      "“Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?” He raised his head and looked at me, and\n",
      "somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. “Would I were!” he\n",
      "said. “Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this. Oh, my\n",
      "you so simple a thing? Was it because I hate you and have hated you all\n",
      "my life? Was it because I wished to give you pain? Was it that I wanted,\n",
      "fearful death? Ah no!”\n",
      "“Forgive me,” said I. He went on:--\n",
      "“My friend, it was because I wished to be gentle in the breaking to you,\n",
      "concrete truth, and of such a one as Miss Lucy. To-night I go to prove\n",
      "This staggered me. A man does not like to prove such a truth; Byron\n",
      "“And prove the very truth he most abhorred.”\n",
      "He saw my hesitation, and spoke:--\n",
      "“The logic is simple, no madman’s logic this time, jumping from tussock\n",
      "at worst it will not harm. If it be true! Ah, there is the dread; yet\n",
      "in the hospital. Dr. Vincent, of the North Hospital, where the papers\n",
      "in class at Amsterdam. He will let two scientists see his case, if he\n",
      "“And then?” He took a key from his pocket and held it up. “And then we\n",
      "spend the night, you and I, in the churchyard where Lucy lies. This is\n",
      "Arthur.” My heart sank within me, for I felt that there was some fearful\n",
      "We found the child awake. It had had a sleep and taken some food, and\n",
      "similarity to those which had been on Lucy’s throat. They were smaller,\n",
      "and the edges looked fresher; that was all. We asked Vincent to what he\n",
      "heights of London. “Out of so many harmless ones,” he said, “there may\n",
      "be some wild specimen from the South of a more malignant species. Some\n",
      "the Zoölogical Gardens a young one may have got loose, or one be bred\n",
      "week after, the children were playing nothing but Red Riding Hood on the\n",
      "Heath and in every alley in the place until this ‘bloofer lady’ scare\n",
      "“I hope,” said Van Helsing, “that when you are sending the child home\n",
      "“Certainly not, not for a week at least; longer if the wound is not\n",
      "Our visit to the hospital took more time than we had reckoned on, and\n",
      "the sun had dipped before we came out. When Van Helsing saw how dark it\n",
      "“There is no hurry. It is more late than I thought. Come, let us seek\n",
      "We dined at “Jack Straw’s Castle” along with a little crowd of\n",
      "radius. The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for he\n",
      "the Westenra tomb. The Professor took the key, opened the creaky door,\n",
      "Van Helsing went about his work systematically. Holding his candle so\n",
      "made assurance of Lucy’s coffin. Another search in his bag, and he took\n",
      "“What are you going to do?” I asked.\n",
      "“To open the coffin. You shall yet be convinced.” Straightway he began\n",
      "hold of his hand to stop him. He only said: “You shall see,” and again\n",
      "such things, and I drew back towards the door. But the Professor never\n",
      "It was certainly a surprise to me, and gave me a considerable shock, but\n",
      "Van Helsing was unmoved. He was now more sure than ever of his ground,\n",
      "and so emboldened to proceed in his task. “Are you satisfied now, friend\n",
      "John?” he asked.\n",
      "“I am satisfied that Lucy’s body is not in that coffin; but that only\n",
      "“And what is that, friend John?”\n",
      "“That it is not there.”\n",
      "“That is good logic,” he said, “so far as it goes. But how do you--how\n",
      "“Perhaps a body-snatcher,” I suggested. “Some of the undertaker’s people\n",
      "the only real cause which I could suggest. The Professor sighed. “Ah\n",
      "He put on the coffin-lid again, gathered up all his things and placed\n",
      "locked it. He handed me the key, saying: “Will you keep it? You had\n",
      "of that kind.” He said nothing, but put the key in his pocket. Then he\n",
      "It was a lonely vigil. Just after I had taken my place I heard a distant\n",
      "unnerved, and angry with the Professor for taking me on such an errand\n",
      "Suddenly, as I turned round, I thought I saw something like a white\n",
      "Professor’s side of the ground, and hurriedly went towards it. Then I\n",
      "coming over, found the Professor holding in his arms a tiny child. When\n",
      "“Are you satisfied now?”\n",
      "“No,” I said, in a way that I felt was aggressive.\n",
      "“Do you not see the child?”\n",
      "“Yes, it is a child, but who brought it here? And is it wounded?” I\n",
      "“We shall see,” said the Professor, and with one impulse we took our way\n",
      "When we had got some little distance away, we went into a clump of\n",
      "“Was I right?” I asked triumphantly.\n",
      "“We were just in time,” said the Professor thankfully.\n",
      "We had now to decide what we were to do with the child, and so consulted\n",
      "So finally we decided that we would take it to the Heath, and when we\n",
      "well. At the edge of Hampstead Heath we heard a policeman’s heavy\n",
      "cab near the “Spaniards,” and drove to town.\n",
      "sleep, as Van Helsing is to call for me at noon. He insists that I shall\n",
      "_27 September._--It was two o’clock before we found a suitable\n",
      "morning did we desire it; but the Professor told me that we should not\n",
      "Outrageous as it was to open a leaden coffin, to see if a woman dead\n",
      "and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road,\n",
      "streamed in. Van Helsing walked over to Lucy’s coffin, and I followed.\n",
      "He bent over and again forced back the leaden flange; and then a shock\n",
      "There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her\n",
      "“Is this a juggle?” I said to him.\n",
      "“Are you convinced now?” said the Professor in response, and as he spoke\n",
      "“See,” he went on, “see, they are even sharper than before. With this\n",
      "John?” Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me. I _could_ not\n",
      "“She may have been placed here since last night.”\n",
      "“Indeed? That is so, and by whom?”\n",
      "“And yet she has been dead one week. Most peoples in that time would not\n",
      "look so.” I had no answer for this, so was silent. Van Helsing did not\n",
      "“Here, there is one thing which is different from all recorded; here is\n",
      "that, friend John, but you shall know it all later--and in trance could\n",
      "is Un-Dead, too. So it is that she differ from all other. Usually when\n",
      "the Un-Dead sleep at home”--as he spoke he made a comprehensive sweep of\n",
      "they are, but this so sweet that was when she not Un-Dead she go back to\n",
      "it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep.” This turned my blood\n",
      "cold, and it began to dawn upon me that I was accepting Van Helsing’s\n",
      "idea of killing her? He looked up at me, and evidently saw the change in\n",
      "“Ah, you believe now?”\n",
      "I answered: “Do not press me too hard all at once. I am willing to\n",
      "drive a stake through her body.” It made me shudder to think of so\n",
      "shudder at the presence of this being, this Un-Dead, as Van Helsing\n",
      "I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing to begin, but he stood as\n",
      "want Arthur, and how shall we tell him of this? If you, who saw the\n",
      "wounds on Lucy’s throat, and saw the wounds so similar on the child’s at\n",
      "Arthur, who know none of those things, to believe? He doubted me when I\n",
      "an Un-Dead. No! I told him once, and since then I learn much. Now, since\n",
      "Berkeley Hotel at ten of the clock. I shall send for Arthur to come too,\n",
      "and also that so fine young man of America that gave his blood. Later we\n",
      "shall all have work to do. I come with you so far as Piccadilly and\n",
      "So we locked the tomb and came away, and got over the wall of the\n",
      "churchyard, which was not much of a task, and drove back to Piccadilly.\n",
      "_Note left by Van Helsing in his portmanteau, Berkeley Hotel directed to\n",
      "John Seward, M. D._\n",
      "(Not delivered.)\n",
      "“_27 September._\n",
      "“Friend John,--\n",
      "that churchyard. It pleases me that the Un-Dead, Miss Lucy, shall not\n",
      "Therefore I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a\n",
      "crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb. She is young as Un-Dead,\n",
      "may not prevail on her wanting to get in; for then the Un-Dead is\n",
      "and if there be aught that may be learned I shall learn it. For Miss\n",
      "Lucy or from her, I have no fear; but that other to whom is there that\n",
      "she is Un-Dead, he have now the power to seek her tomb and find shelter.\n",
      "He is cunning, as I know from Mr. Jonathan and from the way that all\n",
      "along he have fooled us when he played with us for Miss Lucy’s life, and\n",
      "we lost; and in many ways the Un-Dead are strong. He have always the\n",
      "to Miss Lucy it also is all to him. Besides, he can summon his wolf and\n",
      "Un-Dead woman sleep, and the one old man watch.\n",
      "“Therefore I write this in case.... Take the papers that are with this,\n",
      "the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find this\n",
      "great Un-Dead, and cut off his head and burn his heart or drive a stake\n",
      "“If it be so, farewell.\n",
      "“VAN HELSING.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_28 September._--It is wonderful what a good night’s sleep will do for\n",
      "one. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous\n",
      "the Professor can have done it himself? He is so abnormally clever that\n",
      "it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van\n",
      "Helsing was mad; but anyhow I shall watch him carefully. I may get some\n",
      "_29 September, morning._.... Last night, at a little before ten o’clock,\n",
      "Arthur and Quincey came into Van Helsing’s room; he told us all that he\n",
      "wanted us to do, but especially addressing himself to Arthur, as if all\n",
      "there. You were doubtless surprised at my letter?” This query was\n",
      "directly addressed to Lord Godalming.\n",
      "“Me too,” said Quincey Morris laconically.\n",
      "“Oh,” said the Professor, “then you are nearer the beginning, both of\n",
      "you, than friend John here, who has to go a long way back before he can\n",
      "It was evident that he recognised my return to my old doubting frame of\n",
      "“That’s frank anyhow,” broke in Quincey. “I’ll answer for the Professor.\n",
      "“I thank you, sir,” said Van Helsing proudly. “I have done myself the\n",
      "to me.” He held out a hand, which Quincey took.\n",
      "Then Arthur spoke out:--\n",
      "“Dr. Van Helsing, I don’t quite like to ‘buy a pig in a poke,’ as they\n",
      "say in Scotland, and if it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman\n",
      "or my faith as a Christian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise.\n",
      "If you can assure me that what you intend does not violate either of\n",
      "“I accept your limitation,” said Van Helsing, “and all I ask of you is\n",
      "“Agreed!” said Arthur; “that is only fair. And now that the\n",
      "Kingstead.”\n",
      "Arthur’s face fell as he said in an amazed sort of way:--\n",
      "“Where poor Lucy is buried?” The Professor bowed. Arthur went on: “And\n",
      "“To enter the tomb!” Arthur stood up.\n",
      "“Professor, are you in earnest; or it is some monstrous joke? Pardon me,\n",
      "I see that you are in earnest.” He sat down again, but I could see that\n",
      "“And when in the tomb?”\n",
      "“To open the coffin.”\n",
      "“This is too much!” he said, angrily rising again. “I am willing to be\n",
      "of the grave--of one who----” He fairly choked with indignation. The\n",
      "Professor looked pityingly at him.\n",
      "“If I could spare you one pang, my poor friend,” he said, “God knows I\n",
      "Arthur looked up with set white face and said:--\n",
      "“Take care, sir, take care!”\n",
      "“Would it not be well to hear what I have to say?” said Van Helsing.\n",
      "“And then you will at least know the limit of my purpose. Shall I go\n",
      "“That’s fair enough,” broke in Morris.\n",
      "After a pause Van Helsing went on, evidently with an effort:--\n",
      "“Miss Lucy is dead; is it not so? Yes! Then there can be no wrong to\n",
      "Arthur jumped to his feet.\n",
      "“Good God!” he cried. “What do you mean? Has there been any mistake; has\n",
      "she been buried alive?” He groaned in anguish that not even hope could\n",
      "further than to say that she might be Un-Dead.”\n",
      "“Un-Dead! Not alive! What do you mean? Is this all a nightmare, or what\n",
      "“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they\n",
      "I have not done. May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?”\n",
      "“Heavens and earth, no!” cried Arthur in a storm of passion. “Not for\n",
      "Van Helsing, you try me too far. What have I done to you that you should\n",
      "torture me so? What did that poor, sweet girl do that you should want to\n",
      "cast such dishonour on her grave? Are you mad to speak such things, or\n",
      "am I mad to listen to them? Don’t dare to think more of such a\n",
      "duty to do in protecting her grave from outrage; and, by God, I shall do\n",
      "Van Helsing rose up from where he had all the time been seated, and\n",
      "“My Lord Godalming, I, too, have a duty to do, a duty to others, a duty\n",
      "to you, a duty to the dead; and, by God, I shall do it! All I ask you\n",
      "may seem to me. And then, to follow of your Lordship’s wishes I shall\n",
      "you will.” His voice broke a little, and he went on with a voice full of\n",
      "“But, I beseech you, do not go forth in anger with me. In a long life of\n",
      "to do what I can of good; at the first to please my friend John, and\n",
      "even now, when she is the dead Un-Dead, she shall have it freely.” He\n",
      "said this with a very grave, sweet pride, and Arthur was much affected\n",
      "“Oh, it is hard to think of it, and I cannot understand; but at least I\n",
      "CHAPTER XVI\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_\n",
      "It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the\n",
      "the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\n",
      "well at Arthur, for I feared that the proximity to a place laden with so\n",
      "to his grief. The Professor unlocked the door, and seeing a natural\n",
      "He then lit a dark lantern and pointed to the coffin. Arthur stepped\n",
      "forward hesitatingly; Van Helsing said to me:--\n",
      "“You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that\n",
      "“It was.” The Professor turned to the rest saying:--\n",
      "“You hear; and yet there is no one who does not believe with me.” He\n",
      "Van Helsing forced back the leaden flange, and we all looked in and\n",
      "The coffin was empty!\n",
      "For several minutes no one spoke a word. The silence was broken by\n",
      "Quincey Morris:--\n",
      "“Professor, I answered for you. Your word is all I want. I wouldn’t ask\n",
      "Is this your doing?”\n",
      "touched her. What happened was this: Two nights ago my friend Seward and\n",
      "day-time, and she lay there. Did she not, friend John?”\n",
      "“Yes.”\n",
      "“That night we were just in time. One more so small child was missing,\n",
      "and we find it, thank God, unharmed amongst the graves. Yesterday I came\n",
      "here before sundown, for at sundown the Un-Dead can move. I waited here\n",
      "which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they shun. Last\n",
      "So”--here he shut the dark slide of his lantern--“now to the outside.”\n",
      "He opened the door, and we filed out, he coming last and locking the\n",
      "Oh! but it seemed fresh and pure in the night air after the terror of\n",
      "throw aside doubt and to accept Van Helsing’s conclusions. Quincey\n",
      "Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and\n",
      "tobacco and began to chew. As to Van Helsing, he was employed in a\n",
      "asked him what it was that he was doing. Arthur and Quincey drew near\n",
      "“I am closing the tomb, so that the Un-Dead may not enter.”\n",
      "“And is that stuff you have put there going to do it?” asked Quincey.\n",
      "“Great Scott! Is this a game?”\n",
      "“It is.”\n",
      "“What is that which you are using?” This time the question was by\n",
      "Arthur. Van Helsing reverently lifted his hat as he answered:--\n",
      "“The Host. I brought it from Amsterdam. I have an Indulgence.” It was an\n",
      "that in the presence of such earnest purpose as the Professor’s, a\n",
      "one approaching. I pitied the others, especially Arthur. I had myself\n",
      "There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the\n",
      "Professor a keen “S-s-s-s!” He pointed; and far down the avenue of yews\n",
      "We could not see the face, for it was bent down over what we saw to be a\n",
      "were starting forward, but the Professor’s warning hand, seen by us as\n",
      "and I could hear the gasp of Arthur, as we recognised the features of\n",
      "Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was\n",
      "wantonness. Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gesture, we\n",
      "tomb. Van Helsing raised his lantern and drew the slide; by the\n",
      "concentrated light that fell on Lucy’s face we could see that the lips\n",
      "We shuddered with horror. I could see by the tremulous light that even\n",
      "Van Helsing’s iron nerve had failed. Arthur was next to me, and if I had\n",
      "When Lucy--I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her\n",
      "and colour; but Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of\n",
      "light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile. Oh, God,\n",
      "how it made me shudder to see it! With a careless motion, she flung to\n",
      "was a cold-bloodedness in the act which wrung a groan from Arthur; when\n",
      "She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace,\n",
      "“Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are\n",
      "There was something diabolically sweet in her tones--something of the\n",
      "who heard the words addressed to another. As for Arthur, he seemed under\n",
      "was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between\n",
      "When within a foot or two of the door, however, she stopped, as if\n",
      "quiver from Van Helsing’s iron nerves. Never did I see such baffled\n",
      "the flesh were the coils of Medusa’s snakes, and the lovely,\n",
      "the Greeks and Japanese. If ever a face meant death--if looks could\n",
      "And so for full half a minute, which seemed an eternity, she remained\n",
      "entry. Van Helsing broke the silence by asking Arthur:--\n",
      "“Answer me, oh my friend! Am I to proceed in my work?”\n",
      "Arthur threw himself on his knees, and hid his face in his hands, as he\n",
      "“Do as you will, friend; do as you will. There can be no horror like\n",
      "click of the closing lantern as Van Helsing held it down; coming close\n",
      "relief when we saw the Professor calmly restoring the strings of putty\n",
      "When this was done, he lifted the child and said:\n",
      "“Come now, my friends; we can do no more till to-morrow. There is a\n",
      "him, as on the other night; and then to home.” Coming close to Arthur,\n",
      "“My friend Arthur, you have had a sore trial; but after, when you look\n",
      "waters, my child. By this time to-morrow you will, please God, have\n",
      "Arthur and Quincey came home with me, and we tried to cheer each other\n",
      "_29 September, night._--A little before twelve o’clock we three--Arthur,\n",
      "Quincey Morris, and myself--called for the Professor. It was odd to\n",
      "course, Arthur wore black, for he was in deep mourning, but the rest of\n",
      "ourselves. Van Helsing, instead of his little black bag, had with him a\n",
      "When we were alone and had heard the last of the footsteps die out up\n",
      "Professor to the tomb. He unlocked the door, and we entered, closing it\n",
      "by. When he again lifted the lid off Lucy’s coffin we all looked--Arthur\n",
      "loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy’s shape without her\n",
      "soul. I could see even Arthur’s face grow hard as he looked. Presently\n",
      "he said to Van Helsing:--\n",
      "“Is this really Lucy’s body, or only a demon in her shape?”\n",
      "“It is her body, and yet not it. But wait a while, and you all see her\n",
      "She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there; the pointed teeth,\n",
      "devilish mockery of Lucy’s sweet purity. Van Helsing, with his usual\n",
      "bracing, but the effect of these things on both Arthur and Quincey was\n",
      "When all was ready, Van Helsing said:--\n",
      "“Before we do anything, let me tell you this; it is out of the lore and\n",
      "of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the\n",
      "die from the preying of the Un-Dead becomes themselves Un-Dead, and prey\n",
      "ripples from a stone thrown in the water. Friend Arthur, if you had met\n",
      "that kiss which you know of before poor Lucy die; or again, last night\n",
      "have become _nosferatu_, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would\n",
      "all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have fill us with horror.\n",
      "The career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun. Those\n",
      "she live on, Un-Dead, more and more they lose their blood and by her\n",
      "this now Un-Dead be made to rest as true dead, then the soul of the poor\n",
      "shall take her place with the other Angels. So that, my friend, it will\n",
      "To this I am willing; but is there none amongst us who has a better\n",
      "right? Will it be no joy to think of hereafter in the silence of the\n",
      "night when sleep is not: ‘It was my hand that sent her to the stars; it\n",
      "herself have chosen, had it been to her to choose?’ Tell me if there be\n",
      "We all looked at Arthur. He saw, too, what we all did, the infinite\n",
      "Lucy to us as a holy, and not an unholy, memory; he stepped forward and\n",
      "“My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you. Tell me\n",
      "what I am to do, and I shall not falter!” Van Helsing laid a hand on his\n",
      "“Brave lad! A moment’s courage, and it is done. This stake must be\n",
      "“Go on,” said Arthur hoarsely. “Tell me what I am to do.”\n",
      "“Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place the point over the\n",
      "follow--strike in God’s name, that so all may be well with the dead that\n",
      "we love and that the Un-Dead pass away.”\n",
      "Arthur took the stake and the hammer, and when once his mind was set on\n",
      "action his hands never trembled nor even quivered. Van Helsing opened\n",
      "his missal and began to read, and Quincey and I followed as well as we\n",
      "The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech\n",
      "lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But Arthur\n",
      "never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm\n",
      "And then the writhing and quivering of the body became less, and the\n",
      "The hammer fell from Arthur’s hand. He reeled and would have fallen had\n",
      "to the other of us. We gazed so eagerly that Arthur rose, for he had\n",
      "There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded\n",
      "privilege to the one best entitled to it, but Lucy as we had seen her in\n",
      "Van Helsing came and laid his hand on Arthur’s shoulder, and said to\n",
      "“And now, Arthur my friend, dear lad, am I not forgiven?”\n",
      "The reaction of the terrible strain came as he took the old man’s hand\n",
      "“Forgiven! God bless you that you have given my dear one her soul again,\n",
      "and me peace.” He put his hands on the Professor’s shoulder, and laying\n",
      "unmoving. When he raised his head Van Helsing said to him:--\n",
      "“And now, my child, you may kiss her. Kiss her dead lips if you will, as\n",
      "devil now--not any more a foul Thing for all eternity. No longer she is\n",
      "the devil’s Un-Dead. She is God’s true dead, whose soul is with Him!”\n",
      "Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the\n",
      "tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point\n",
      "and gathering up our belongings, came away. When the Professor locked\n",
      "the door he gave the key to Arthur.\n",
      "Outside the air was sweet, the sun shone, and the birds sang, and it\n",
      "Before we moved away Van Helsing said:--\n",
      "“Now, my friends, one step of our work is done, one the most harrowing\n",
      "it, and pain. Shall you not all help me? We have learned to believe, all\n",
      "of us--is it not so? And since so, do we not see our duty? Yes! And do\n",
      "Each in turn, we took his hand, and the promise was made. Then said the\n",
      "Professor as we moved off:--\n",
      "“Two nights hence you shall meet with me and dine together at seven of\n",
      "the clock with friend John. I shall entreat two others, two that you\n",
      "unfold. Friend John, you come with me home, for I have much to consult\n",
      "about, and you can help me. To-night I leave for Amsterdam, but shall\n",
      "Then our promise shall be made to each other anew; for there is a\n",
      "CHAPTER XVII\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_\n",
      "When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\n",
      "“Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA\n",
      "HARKER.”\n",
      "The Professor was delighted. “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,” he said,\n",
      "“pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your\n",
      "house, friend John. You must meet her at the station. Telegraph her _en\n",
      "When the wire was despatched he had a cup of tea; over it he told me of\n",
      "a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me a typewritten\n",
      "copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker’s diary at Whitby. “Take these,” he\n",
      "many another; or it may sound the knell of the Un-Dead who walk the\n",
      "kept diary of all these so strange things; is it not so? Yes! Then we\n",
      "shall go through all these together when we meet.” He then made ready\n",
      "for his departure, and shortly after drove off to Liverpool Street. I\n",
      "took my way to Paddington, where I arrived about fifteen minutes before\n",
      "The crowd melted away, after the bustling fashion common to arrival\n",
      "after a quick glance, said: “Dr. Seward, is it not?”\n",
      "“And you are Mrs. Harker!” I answered at once; whereupon she held out\n",
      "“I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but----” She stopped\n",
      "The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for it\n",
      "typewriter, and we took the Underground to Fenchurch Street, after I had\n",
      "prepared at once for Mrs. Harker.\n",
      "In due time we arrived. She knew, of course, that the place was a\n",
      "She told me that, if she might, she would come presently to my study, as\n",
      "the papers which Van Helsing left with me, though they lie open before\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_29 September._--After I had tidied myself, I went down to Dr. Seward’s\n",
      "the door, and on his calling out, “Come in,” I entered.\n",
      "To my intense surprise, there was no one with him. He was quite alone,\n",
      "“Oh,” he replied with a smile, “I was only entering my diary.”\n",
      "“Your diary?” I asked him in surprise.\n",
      "“Yes,” he answered. “I keep it in this.” As he spoke he laid his hand on\n",
      "“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?”\n",
      "“Certainly,” he replied with alacrity, and stood up to put it in train\n",
      "“The fact is,” he began awkwardly, “I only keep my diary in it; and as\n",
      "is, I mean----” He stopped, and I tried to help him out of his\n",
      "“You helped to attend dear Lucy at the end. Let me hear how she died;\n",
      "To my surprise, he answered, with a horrorstruck look in his face:--\n",
      "“Tell you of her death? Not for the wide world!”\n",
      "“Why not?” I asked, for some grave, terrible feeling was coming over me.\n",
      "Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an excuse.\n",
      "At length he stammered out:--\n",
      "“You see, I do not know how to pick out any particular part of the\n",
      "diary.” Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said\n",
      "of a child: “That’s quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!” I could\n",
      "said. “But do you know that, although I have kept the diary for months\n",
      "part of it in case I wanted to look it up?” By this time my mind was\n",
      "made up that the diary of a doctor who attended Lucy might have\n",
      "something to add to the sum of our knowledge of that terrible Being, and\n",
      "“Then, Dr. Seward, you had better let me copy it out for you on my\n",
      "typewriter.” He grew to a positively deathly pallor as he said:--\n",
      "“No! no! no! For all the world, I wouldn’t let you know that terrible\n",
      "Then it was terrible; my intuition was right! For a moment I thought,\n",
      "“You do not know me,” I said. “When you have read those papers--my own\n",
      "He is certainly a man of noble nature; poor dear Lucy was right about\n",
      "“You are quite right. I did not trust you because I did not know you.\n",
      "But I know you now; and let me say that I should have known you long\n",
      "ago. I know that Lucy told you of me; she told me of you too. May I make\n",
      "the only atonement in my power? Take the cylinders and hear them--the\n",
      "able to understand certain things.” He carried the phonograph himself up\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_29 September._--I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan\n",
      "Harker and that other of his wife that I let the time run on without\n",
      "dinner, so I said: “She is possibly tired; let dinner wait an hour,” and\n",
      "I went on with my work. I had just finished Mrs. Harker’s diary, when\n",
      "cause for tears, God knows! but the relief of them was denied me; and\n",
      "“Oh, no, not distressed me,” she replied, “but I have been more touched\n",
      "It was like a soul crying out to Almighty God. No one must hear them\n",
      "spoken ever again! See, I have tried to be useful. I have copied out the\n",
      "“No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I said in a low voice. She\n",
      "“Ah, but they must!”\n",
      "“Must! But why?” I asked.\n",
      "“Because it is a part of the terrible story, a part of poor dear Lucy’s\n",
      "point; and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7 September,\n",
      "how poor Lucy was beset, and how her terrible doom was being wrought\n",
      "out. Jonathan and I have been working day and night since Professor Van\n",
      "Helsing saw us. He is gone to Whitby to get more information, and he\n",
      "if some of us were in the dark.” She looked at me so appealingly, and at\n",
      "that I gave in at once to her wishes. “You shall,” I said, “do as you\n",
      "like in the matter. God forgive me if I do wrong! There are terrible\n",
      "poor Lucy’s death, you will not be content, I know, to remain in the\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_29 September._--After dinner I came with Dr. Seward to his study. He\n",
      "When the terrible story of Lucy’s death, and--and all that followed, was\n",
      "fainting disposition. When Dr. Seward saw me he jumped up with a\n",
      "the multitude of horrors, the holy ray of light that my dear, dear Lucy\n",
      "had not known Jonathan’s experience in Transylvania I could not have\n",
      "typewriter, and said to Dr. Seward:--\n",
      "“Let me write this all out now. We must be ready for Dr. Van Helsing\n",
      "when he comes. I have sent a telegram to Jonathan to come on here when\n",
      "he arrives in London from Whitby. In this matter dates are everything,\n",
      "Lord Godalming and Mr. Morris are coming too. Let us be able to tell him\n",
      "when they come.” He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I\n",
      "all the rest. It was late when I got through, but Dr. Seward went about\n",
      "remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor’s\n",
      "Exeter; so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspapers, I borrowed the\n",
      "files of “The Westminster Gazette” and “The Pall Mall Gazette,” and took\n",
      "them to my room. I remember how much “The Dailygraph” and “The Whitby\n",
      "Gazette,” of which I had made cuttings, helped us to understand the\n",
      "terrible events at Whitby when Count Dracula landed, so I shall look\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_30 September._--Mr. Harker arrived at nine o’clock. He had got his\n",
      "_Later._--After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room,\n",
      "the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the\n",
      "carriers in London who took charge of them. He is now reading his wife’s\n",
      "Strange that it never struck me that the very next house might be\n",
      "the Count’s hiding-place! Goodness knows that we had enough clues\n",
      "from the conduct of the patient Renfield! The bundle of letters\n",
      "if we had only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy!\n",
      "Stop; that way madness lies! Harker has gone back, and is again\n",
      "meantime I should see Renfield, as hitherto he has been a sort of\n",
      "index to the coming and going of the Count. I hardly see this yet,\n",
      "that Mrs. Harker put my cylinders into type! We never could have\n",
      "I found Renfield sitting placidly in his room with his hands\n",
      "not had the chat with Harker and read the letters and the dates of\n",
      "Count. What then does this absolute content mean? Can it be that\n",
      "Stay; he is himself zoöphagous, and in his wild ravings outside the\n",
      "chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of “master.” This\n",
      "and then--! So I came away. I mistrust these quiet moods of his; so\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_29 September, in train to London._--When I received Mr. Billington’s\n",
      "thought it best to go down to Whitby and make, on the spot, such\n",
      "of the Count’s to its place in London. Later, we may be able to deal\n",
      "stay the night. They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality:\n",
      "knew that I was busy, and that my stay was short, and Mr. Billington had\n",
      "It gave me almost a turn to see again one of the letters which I had\n",
      "seen on the Count’s table before I knew of his diabolical plans.\n",
      "Everything had been carefully thought out, and done systematically and\n",
      "out. To use an Americanism, he had “taken no chances,” and the absolute\n",
      "“Fifty cases of common earth, to be used for experimental purposes.”\n",
      "Also the copy of letter to Carter Paterson, and their reply; of both of\n",
      "these I got copies. This was all the information Mr. Billington could\n",
      "give me, so I went down to the port and saw the coastguards, the Customs\n",
      "tradition; but no one could add to the simple description “Fifty cases\n",
      "_30 September._--The station-master was good enough to give me a line to\n",
      "his old companion the station-master at King’s Cross, so that when I\n",
      "From thence I went on to Carter Paterson’s central office, where I met\n",
      "day-book and letter-book, and at once telephoned to their King’s Cross\n",
      "delivery of the boxes at Carfax. Here again I found the tally agreeing\n",
      "“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in. Blyme! but it\n",
      "Jerusalem in it. But the ole chapel--that took the cike, that did! Me\n",
      "Having been in the house, I could well believe him; but if he knew what\n",
      "Of one thing I am now satisfied: that _all_ the boxes which arrived at\n",
      "Whitby from Varna in the _Demeter_ were safely deposited in the old\n",
      "chapel at Carfax. There should be fifty of them there, unless any have\n",
      "since been removed--as from Dr. Seward’s diary I fear.\n",
      "I shall try to see the carter who took away the boxes from Carfax when\n",
      "Renfield attacked them. By following up this clue we may learn a good\n",
      "_Later._--Mina and I have worked all day, and we have put all the papers\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal_\n",
      "_30 September._--I am so glad that I hardly know how to contain myself.\n",
      "It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had:\n",
      "detrimentally on Jonathan. I saw him leave for Whitby with as brave a\n",
      "Professor Van Helsing said: he is true grit, and he improves under\n",
      "thing so hunted as is the Count. That is just it: this Thing is not\n",
      "human--not even beast. To read Dr. Seward’s account of poor Lucy’s\n",
      "_Later._--Lord Godalming and Mr. Morris arrived earlier than we\n",
      "expected. Dr. Seward was out on business, and had taken Jonathan with\n",
      "brought back all poor dear Lucy’s hopes of only a few months ago. Of\n",
      "course they had heard Lucy speak of me, and it seemed that Dr. Van\n",
      "Helsing, too, has been quite “blowing my trumpet,” as Mr. Morris\n",
      "about the proposals they made to Lucy. They did not quite know what to\n",
      "them in affairs right up to date. I knew from Dr. Seward’s diary that\n",
      "they had been at Lucy’s death--her real death--and that I need not fear\n",
      "I gave them each a copy to read in the library. When Lord Godalming got\n",
      "“Did you write all this, Mrs. Harker?”\n",
      "to the last hour of his life. Besides, I know you loved my poor Lucy--”\n",
      "Here he turned away and covered his face with his hands. I could hear\n",
      "Lord Godalming found himself alone with me he sat down on the sofa and\n",
      "“I loved dear Lucy, and I know what she was to you, and what you were to\n",
      "Lucy’s sake?”\n",
      "In an instant the poor dear fellow was overwhelmed with grief. It seemed\n",
      "We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above\n",
      "After a little bit his sobs ceased, and he raised himself with an\n",
      "like a brother, will you not, for all our lives--for dear Lucy’s sake?”\n",
      "“For dear Lucy’s sake,” I said as we clasped hands. “Ay, and for your\n",
      "will let me know.” He was so earnest, and his sorrow was so fresh, that\n",
      "As I came along the corridor I saw Mr. Morris looking out of a window.\n",
      "He turned as he heard my footsteps. “How is Art?” he said. Then noticing\n",
      "my red eyes, he went on: “Ah, I see you have been comforting him. Poor\n",
      "He bore his own trouble so bravely that my heart bled for him. I saw the\n",
      "be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it? You\n",
      "will know, later on, why I speak.” He saw that I was in earnest, and\n",
      "“Little girl, you will never regret that true-hearted kindness, so long\n",
      "as ever you live!” Then he went into the study to his friend.\n",
      "“Little girl!”--the very words he had used to Lucy, and oh, but he\n",
      "CHAPTER XVIII\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY\n",
      "_30 September._--I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming\n",
      "and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\n",
      "of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\n",
      "carriers’ men, of whom Dr. Hennessey had written to me. Mrs. Harker gave\n",
      "finished, Mrs. Harker said:--\n",
      "“Dr. Seward, may I ask a favour? I want to see your patient, Mr.\n",
      "Renfield. Do let me see him. What you have said of him in your diary\n",
      "interests me so much!” She looked so appealing and so pretty that I\n",
      "lady would like to see him; to which he simply answered: “Why?”\n",
      "“She is going through the house, and wants to see every one in it,” I\n",
      "answered. “Oh, very well,” he said; “let her come in, by all means; but\n",
      "just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.” His method of tidying was\n",
      "task, he said cheerfully: “Let the lady come in,” and sat down on the\n",
      "“Good-evening, Mr. Renfield,” said she. “You see, I know you, for Dr.\n",
      "Seward has told me of you.” He made no immediate reply, but eyed her all\n",
      "“You’re not the girl the doctor wanted to marry, are you? You can’t be,\n",
      "you know, for she’s dead.” Mrs. Harker smiled sweetly as she replied:--\n",
      "“Oh no! I have a husband of my own, to whom I was married before I ever\n",
      "saw Dr. Seward, or he me. I am Mrs. Harker.”\n",
      "“Then what are you doing here?”\n",
      "“My husband and I are staying on a visit with Dr. Seward.”\n",
      "“Then don’t stay.”\n",
      "“But why not?” I thought that this style of conversation might not be\n",
      "pleasant to Mrs. Harker, any more than it was to me, so I joined in:--\n",
      "“How did you know I wanted to marry any one?” His reply was simply\n",
      "contemptuous, given in a pause in which he turned his eyes from Mrs.\n",
      "Harker to me, instantly turning them back again:--\n",
      "“What an asinine question!”\n",
      "“I don’t see that at all, Mr. Renfield,” said Mrs. Harker, at once\n",
      "“You will, of course, understand, Mrs. Harker, that when a man is so\n",
      "gentleman. I wonder if it was Mrs. Harker’s presence which had touched\n",
      "We continued to talk for some time; and, seeing that he was seemingly\n",
      "“Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief. Indeed,\n",
      "blood--relying, of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, ‘For the blood is\n",
      "the life.’ Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has\n",
      "saw that I should go to the station to meet Van Helsing, so I told Mrs.\n",
      "Harker that it was time to leave. She came at once, after saying\n",
      "pleasantly to Mr. Renfield: “Good-bye, and I hope I may see you often,\n",
      "“Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again.\n",
      "May He bless and keep you!”\n",
      "When I went to the station to meet Van Helsing I left the boys behind\n",
      "me. Poor Art seemed more cheerful than he has been since Lucy first took\n",
      "ill, and Quincey is more like his own bright self than he has been for\n",
      "Van Helsing stepped from the carriage with the eager nimbleness of a\n",
      "“Ah, friend John, how goes all? Well? So! I have been busy, for I come\n",
      "much to tell. Madam Mina is with you? Yes. And her so fine husband? And\n",
      "Arthur and my friend Quincey, they are with you, too? Good!”\n",
      "As I drove to the house I told him of what had passed, and of how my own\n",
      "diary had come to be of some use through Mrs. Harker’s suggestion; at\n",
      "which the Professor interrupted me:--\n",
      "“Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain--a brain that a man\n",
      "should have were he much gifted--and a woman’s heart. The good God\n",
      "fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good\n",
      "combination. Friend John, up to now fortune has made that woman of help\n",
      "had found in his absence: that the house which Dracula had bought was\n",
      "to come on him. “Oh that we had known it before!” he said, “for then we\n",
      "might have reached him in time to save poor Lucy. However, ‘the milk\n",
      "of that, but go on our way to the end.” Then he fell into a silence that\n",
      "dinner he said to Mrs. Harker:--\n",
      "“I am told, Madam Mina, by my friend John that you and your husband have\n",
      "“Not up to this moment, Professor,” she said impulsively, “but up to\n",
      "“But why not up to now? We have seen hitherto how good light all the\n",
      "Mrs. Harker began to blush, and taking a paper from her pockets, she\n",
      "“Dr. Van Helsing, will you read this, and tell me if it must go in. It\n",
      "what is personal. Must it go in?” The Professor read it over gravely,\n",
      "“It need not go in if you do not wish it; but I pray that it may. It can\n",
      "honour you--as well as more esteem and love.” She took it back with\n",
      "And so now, up to this very hour, all the records we have are complete\n",
      "and in order. The Professor took away one copy to study after dinner,\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_30 September._--When we met in Dr. Seward’s study two hours after\n",
      "board or committee. Professor Van Helsing took the head of the table, to\n",
      "which Dr. Seward motioned him as he came into the room. He made me sit\n",
      "next to him on his right, and asked me to act as secretary; Jonathan sat\n",
      "next to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr.\n",
      "Morris--Lord Godalming being next the Professor, and Dr. Seward in the\n",
      "centre. The Professor said:--\n",
      "that are in these papers.” We all expressed assent, and he went on:--\n",
      "“Then it were, I think good that I tell you something of the kind of\n",
      "So we then can discuss how we shall act, and can take our measure\n",
      "“There are such beings as vampires; some of us have evidence that they\n",
      "have believe until such time as that fact thunder on my ear. ‘See! see!\n",
      "I prove; I prove.’ Alas! Had I known at the first what now I know--nay,\n",
      "begin our strike to destroy him? How shall we find his where; and having\n",
      "found it, how can we destroy? My friends, this is much; it is a terrible\n",
      "where end we? Life is nothings; I heed him not. But to fail here, is not\n",
      "We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God’s\n",
      "sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. But we are face\n",
      "to face with duty; and in such case must we shrink? For me, I say, no;\n",
      "Whilst he was speaking, Jonathan had taken my hand. I feared, oh so\n",
      "When the Professor had done speaking my husband looked in my eyes, and I\n",
      "“I answer for Mina and myself,” he said.\n",
      "“Count me in, Professor,” said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as usual.\n",
      "“I am with you,” said Lord Godalming, “for Lucy’s sake, if for no other\n",
      "Dr. Seward simply nodded. The Professor stood up and, after laying his\n",
      "his right hand, and Lord Godalming his left; Jonathan held my right with\n",
      "his left and stretched across to Mr. Morris. So as we all took hands our\n",
      "occur to me to draw back. We resumed our places, and Dr. Van Helsing\n",
      "“Well, you know what we have to contend against; but we, too, are not\n",
      "In fact, so far as our powers extend, they are unfettered, and we are\n",
      "“Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are\n",
      "“All we have to go upon are traditions and superstitions. These do not\n",
      "sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century? We even scouted a belief\n",
      "that men have been. In old Greece, in old Rome; he flourish in Germany\n",
      "all over, in France, in India, even in the Chernosese; and in China, so\n",
      "this day. He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the\n",
      "devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar. So far, then, we\n",
      "Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him to eat, never!\n",
      "He throws no shadow; he make in the mirror no reflect, as again\n",
      "Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand--witness again\n",
      "Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolfs, and when he help him\n",
      "from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as\n",
      "bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John\n",
      "saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at\n",
      "the window of Miss Lucy. He can come in mist which he create--that noble\n",
      "come on moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those\n",
      "sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we ourselves saw\n",
      "Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the\n",
      "He cannot go where he lists; he who is not of nature has yet to obey\n",
      "These things are we told, and in this record of ours we have proof by\n",
      "Whitby; still at other time he can only change when the time come. It is\n",
      "We have seen it with our eyes.\n",
      "“Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine\n",
      "clever. I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to\n",
      "has been. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his\n",
      "name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of\n",
      "Turkey-land. If it be so, then was he no common man; for in that time,\n",
      "forest.’ That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his\n",
      "grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The Draculas were, says\n",
      "Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who\n",
      "were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They\n",
      "learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake\n",
      "Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. In the\n",
      "‘pokol’--Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is\n",
      "Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the window,\n",
      "pause, and then the Professor went on:--\n",
      "“And now we must settle what we do. We have here much data, and we must\n",
      "proceed to lay out our campaign. We know from the inquiry of Jonathan\n",
      "that from the castle to Whitby came fifty boxes of earth, all of which\n",
      "were delivered at Carfax; we also know that at least some of these boxes\n",
      "Here we were interrupted in a very startling way. Outside the house came\n",
      "out. The men all jumped to their feet; Lord Godalming flew over to the\n",
      "window and threw up the sash. As he did so we heard Mr. Morris’s voice\n",
      "“Sorry! I fear I have alarmed you. I shall come in and tell you about\n",
      "“It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs.\n",
      "Harker, most sincerely; I fear I must have frightened you terribly. But\n",
      "the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking there came a big bat\n",
      "seen one. You used to laugh at me for it then, Art.”\n",
      "“Did you hit it?” asked Dr. Van Helsing.\n",
      "“I don’t know; I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood.” Without\n",
      "saying any more he took his seat, and the Professor began to resume his\n",
      "“We must trace each of these boxes; and when we are ready, we must\n",
      "Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of\n",
      "“And now for you, Madam Mina, this night is the end until all be well.\n",
      "You are too precious to us to have such risk. When we part to-night, you\n",
      "All the men, even Jonathan, seemed relieved; but it did not seem to me\n",
      "Mr. Morris resumed the discussion:--\n",
      "“As there is no time to lose, I vote we have a look at his house right\n",
      "me out of their counsels altogether. They have now gone off to Carfax,\n",
      "Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep; as if a woman can\n",
      "to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he returns.\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_1 October, 4 a. m._--Just as we were about to leave the house, an\n",
      "urgent message was brought to me from Renfield to know if I would see\n",
      "“He seems very importunate, sir. I have never seen him so eager. I don’t\n",
      "cause, so I said: “All right; I’ll go now”; and I asked the others to\n",
      "“Take me with you, friend John,” said the Professor. “His case in your\n",
      "“May I come also?” asked Lord Godalming.\n",
      "“Me too?” said Quincey Morris. “May I come?” said Harker. I nodded, and\n",
      "We found him in a state of considerable excitement, but far more\n",
      "the habit of equality, that I at once made the introduction: “Lord\n",
      "Godalming; Professor Van Helsing; Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas; Mr.\n",
      "Renfield.” He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn:--\n",
      "“Lord Godalming, I had the honour of seconding your father at the\n",
      "Windham; I grieve to know, by your holding the title, that he is no\n",
      "patronised on Derby night. Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great\n",
      "state. Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have\n",
      "far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold\n",
      "alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a\n",
      "vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true\n",
      "meeting Van Helsing? Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of\n",
      "And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian and medico-jurist as\n",
      "be considered as under exceptional circumstances.” He made this last\n",
      "So I contented myself with making a general statement that he appeared\n",
      "“But I fear, Dr. Seward, that you hardly apprehend my wish. I desire to\n",
      "before so admirable a practitioner as Dr. Seward so simple, yet so\n",
      "momentous a wish, to ensure its fulfilment.” He looked at me keenly, and\n",
      "“Is it possible that I have erred in my supposition?”\n",
      "“You have,” I said frankly, but at the same time, as I felt, brutally.\n",
      "There was a considerable pause, and then he said slowly:--\n",
      "“Then I suppose I must only shift my ground of request. Let me ask for\n",
      "your friends.” Again he looked at us all keenly. I had a growing\n",
      "all lunatics, give himself away in the end. Van Helsing was gazing at\n",
      "with the fixed concentration of his look. He said to Renfield in a tone\n",
      "“Can you not tell frankly your real reason for wishing to be free\n",
      "without prejudice, and with the habit of keeping an open mind--Dr.\n",
      "Seward will give you, at his own risk and on his own responsibility, the\n",
      "privilege you seek.” He shook his head sadly, and with a look of\n",
      "poignant regret on his face. The Professor went on:--\n",
      "“Come, sir, bethink yourself. You claim the privilege of reason in the\n",
      "we perform the duty which you yourself put upon us? Be wise, and help\n",
      "us; and if we can we shall aid you to achieve your wish.” He still shook\n",
      "“Dr. Van Helsing, I have nothing to say. Your argument is complete, and\n",
      "“Come, my friends, we have work to do. Good-night.”\n",
      "As, however, I got near the door, a new change came over the patient. He\n",
      "relations, he became still more demonstrative. I glanced at Van Helsing,\n",
      "“Let me entreat you, Dr. Seward, oh, let me implore you, to let me out\n",
      "By all you hold sacred--by all you hold dear--by your love that is\n",
      "lost--by your hope that lives--for the sake of the Almighty, take me out\n",
      "of this and save my soul from guilt! Can’t you hear me, man? Can’t you\n",
      "understand? Will you never learn? Don’t you know that I am sane and\n",
      "for his soul? Oh, hear me! hear me! Let me go! let me go! let me go!”\n",
      "“Come,” I said sternly, “no more of this; we have had quite enough\n",
      "He suddenly stopped and looked at me intently for several moments. Then,\n",
      "When I was leaving the room, last of our party, he said to me in a\n",
      "“You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later\n",
      "CHAPTER XIX\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\n",
      "mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am\n",
      "Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\n",
      "little upset by the scene with Mr. Renfield. When we came away from his\n",
      "room we were silent till we got back to the study. Then Mr. Morris said\n",
      "to Dr. Seward:--\n",
      "“Say, Jack, if that man wasn’t attempting a bluff, he is about the\n",
      "chance.” Lord Godalming and I were silent, but Dr. Van Helsing added:--\n",
      "“Friend John, you know more of lunatics than I do, and I’m glad of it,\n",
      "our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say.\n",
      "All is best as they are.” Dr. Seward seemed to answer them both in a\n",
      "seems so mixed up with the Count in an indexy kind of way that I am\n",
      "throat out with his teeth. Besides, he called the Count ‘lord and\n",
      "That horrid thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind to help\n",
      "help to unnerve a man.” The Professor stepped over, and laying his hand\n",
      "“Friend John, have no fear. We are trying to do our duty in a very sad\n",
      "hope for, except the pity of the good God?” Lord Godalming had slipped\n",
      "“That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I’ve got an antidote on\n",
      "call.” Having passed the wall, we took our way to the house, taking care\n",
      "out. When we got to the porch the Professor opened his bag and took out\n",
      "“My friends, we are going into a terrible danger, and we need arms of\n",
      "which we must not desecrate needless.” This was a portion of Sacred\n",
      "Wafer, which he put in an envelope and handed to me. Each of the others\n",
      "was similarly equipped. “Now,” he said, “friend John, where are the\n",
      "skeleton keys? If so that we can open the door, we need not break house\n",
      "by the window, as before at Miss Lucy’s.”\n",
      "Dr. Seward tried one or two skeleton keys, his mechanical dexterity as a\n",
      "Dr. Seward’s diary of the opening of Miss Westenra’s tomb; I fancy that\n",
      "shrank back. The Professor was the first to move forward, and stepped\n",
      "“_In manus tuas, Domine!_” he said, crossing himself as he passed over\n",
      "Professor carefully tried the lock, lest we might not be able to open it\n",
      "The light from the tiny lamps fell in all sorts of odd forms, as the\n",
      "experience in Transylvania. I think the feeling was common to us all,\n",
      "The whole place was thick with dust. The floor was seemingly inches\n",
      "in the blanket of dust, similar to that exposed when the Professor\n",
      "“You know this place, Jonathan. You have copied maps of it, and you know\n",
      "“This is the spot,” said the Professor as he turned his lamp on a small\n",
      "encountered. None of the others had met the Count at all at close\n",
      "air. But as to the odour itself, how shall I describe it? It was not\n",
      "Under ordinary circumstances such a stench would have brought our\n",
      "We made an accurate examination of the place, the Professor saying as we\n",
      "“The first thing is to see how many of the boxes are left; we must then\n",
      "There were only twenty-nine left out of the fifty! Once I got a fright,\n",
      "for, seeing Lord Godalming suddenly turn and look out of the vaulted\n",
      "see the high lights of the Count’s evil face, the ridge of the nose, the\n",
      "as Lord Godalming said, “I thought I saw a face, but it was only the\n",
      "A few minutes later I saw Morris step suddenly back from a corner, which\n",
      "For a moment or two we stood appalled, all save Lord Godalming, who was\n",
      "iron-bound oaken door, which Dr. Seward had described from the outside,\n",
      "from behind Dr. Seward’s house by the yelping of dogs, and after about a\n",
      "Unconsciously we had all moved towards the door, and as we moved I\n",
      "Lord Godalming lifted one of the dogs, and carrying him in, placed him\n",
      "With their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed, for\n",
      "Whether it was the purifying of the deadly atmosphere by the opening of\n",
      "Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when\n",
      "The morning was quickening in the east when we emerged from the front.\n",
      "Dr. Van Helsing had taken the key of the hall-door from the bunch, and\n",
      "“So far,” he said, “our night has been eminently successful. No harm has\n",
      "accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or\n",
      "beasts which are to the Count’s command are yet themselves not amenable\n",
      "from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur. We have other matters\n",
      "So be it that he has gone elsewhere. Good! It has given us opportunity\n",
      "The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who\n",
      "from Renfield’s room. The poor wretch was doubtless torturing himself,\n",
      "I came tiptoe into our own room, and found Mina asleep, breathing so\n",
      "_1 October, later._--I suppose it was natural that we should have all\n",
      "rest at all. Even Mina must have felt its exhaustion, for though I slept\n",
      "sooner the matter is attended to the better. I shall look up Thomas\n",
      "Snelling to-day.\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_1 October._--It was towards noon when I was awakened by the Professor\n",
      "“Your patient interests me much. May it be that with you I visit him\n",
      "this morning? Or if that you are too occupy, I can go alone if it may\n",
      "instructions. Before the Professor left the room I cautioned him against\n",
      "getting any false impression from my patient. “But,” he answered, “I\n",
      "things. He said to Madam Mina, as I see in your diary of yesterday, that\n",
      "he had once had such a belief. Why do you smile, friend John?”\n",
      "“Excuse me,” I said, “but the answer is here.” I laid my hand on the\n",
      "type-written matter. “When our sane and learned lunatic made that very\n",
      "nauseous with the flies and spiders which he had eaten just before Mrs.\n",
      "Harker entered the room.” Van Helsing smiled in turn. “Good!” he said.\n",
      "“Your memory is true, friend John. I should have remembered. And yet it\n",
      "Who knows?” I went on with my work, and before long was through that in\n",
      "Van Helsing back in the study. “Do I interrupt?” he asked politely as he\n",
      "“Not at all,” I answered. “Come in. My work is finished, and I am free.\n",
      "“It is needless; I have seen him!”\n",
      "“Well?”\n",
      "When I entered his room he was sitting on a stool in the centre, with\n",
      "measure of respect as I could assume. He made no reply whatever. “Don’t\n",
      "enough; you are the old fool Van Helsing. I wish you would take yourself\n",
      "Dutchmen!” Not a word more would he say, but sat in his implacable\n",
      "happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina. Friend John, it does\n",
      "not want him to weaken in this matter. “Mrs. Harker is better out of it.\n",
      "Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have\n",
      "So Van Helsing has gone to confer with Mrs. Harker and Harker; Quincey\n",
      "and Art are all out following up the clues as to the earth-boxes. I\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_1 October._--It is strange to me to be kept in the dark as I am to-day;\n",
      "after Jonathan’s full confidence for so many years, to see him\n",
      "Jonathan was late too, he was the earlier. He spoke to me before he went\n",
      "what had happened in the visit to the Count’s house. And yet he must\n",
      "I acquiesced. But to think that he keeps anything from me! And now I am\n",
      "That has done me good. Well, some day Jonathan will tell me all; and\n",
      "Last night I went to bed when the men had gone, simply because they told\n",
      "kept thinking over everything that has been ever since Jonathan came to\n",
      "see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate\n",
      "is most to be deplored. If I hadn’t gone to Whitby, perhaps poor dear\n",
      "Lucy would be with us now. She hadn’t taken to visiting the churchyard\n",
      "Oh, why did I ever go to Whitby? There now, crying again! I wonder what\n",
      "has come over me to-day. I must hide it from Jonathan, for if he knew\n",
      "on a very tumultuous scale, from Mr. Renfield’s room, which is somewhere\n",
      "All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by the moonlight\n",
      "morning, when Jonathan woke me. I think that it took me an effort and a\n",
      "little time to realise where I was, and that it was Jonathan who was\n",
      "I thought that I was asleep, and waiting for Jonathan to come back. I\n",
      "around. The gaslight which I had left lit for Jonathan, but turned down,\n",
      "my eyes, but could still see through my eyelids. (It is wonderful what\n",
      "tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.) The\n",
      "pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night.” Was it indeed some such\n",
      "spiritual guidance that was coming to me in my sleep? But the pillar was\n",
      "two red eyes, such as Lucy told me of in her momentary mental wandering\n",
      "when, on the cliff, the dying sunlight struck the windows of St. Mary’s\n",
      "Church. Suddenly the horror burst upon me that it was thus that Jonathan\n",
      "too much of them. I would get Dr. Van Helsing or Dr. Seward to prescribe\n",
      "_2 October 10 p. m._--Last night I slept, but did not dream. I must have\n",
      "slept soundly, for I was not waked by Jonathan coming to bed; but the\n",
      "In the afternoon Mr. Renfield asked if he might see me. Poor man, he was\n",
      "very gentle, and when I came away he kissed my hand and bade God bless\n",
      "of what had occurred to each during the day; I could see from Jonathan’s\n",
      "sleepy as I should have been; so before they went I asked Dr. Seward to\n",
      "CHAPTER XX\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\n",
      "Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The\n",
      "was only the assistant to Smollet, who of the two mates was the\n",
      "responsible person. So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph\n",
      "Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a\n",
      "were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from Carfax and left at\n",
      "197, Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he\n",
      "deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey. If then the Count meant to\n",
      "scatter these ghastly refuges of his over London, these places were\n",
      "he could not mean to confine himself to two sides of London. He was now\n",
      "be left out of his diabolical scheme--let alone the City itself and the\n",
      "very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. I went back\n",
      "to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had\n",
      "been taken from Carfax.\n",
      "He replied:--\n",
      "“Well, guv’nor, you’ve treated me wery ’an’some”--I had given him half a\n",
      "Bloxam say four nights ago in the ’Are an’ ’Ounds, in Pincher’s Alley,\n",
      "Purfect. There ain’t a-many such jobs as this ’ere, an’ I’m thinkin’\n",
      "that maybe Sam Bloxam could tell ye summut.” I asked if he could tell me\n",
      "“Look ’ere, guv’nor, there ain’t no sense in me a-keepin’ you ’ere. I\n",
      "may find Sam soon, or I mayn’t; but anyhow he ain’t like to be in a way\n",
      "If you can give me a envelope with a stamp on it, and put yer address on\n",
      "it, I’ll find out where Sam is to be found and post it ye to-night. But\n",
      "’im; for Sam gets off main early, never mind the booze the night afore.”\n",
      "This was all practical, so one of the children went off with a penny to\n",
      "came back, I addressed the envelope and stamped it, and when Smollet had\n",
      "Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as\n",
      "Count or his doings ever since we told her of our decision.\n",
      "_2 October, evening._--A long and trying and exciting day. By the first\n",
      "“Sam Bloxam, Korkrans, 4, Poters Cort, Bartel Street, Walworth. Arsk for\n",
      "I got the letter in bed, and rose without waking Mina. She looked heavy\n",
      "her going back to Exeter. I think she would be happier in our own home,\n",
      "in ignorance. I only saw Dr. Seward for a moment, and told him where I\n",
      "have found out anything. I drove to Walworth and found, with some\n",
      "difficulty, Potter’s Court. Mr. Smollet’s spelling misled me, as I asked\n",
      "for Poter’s Court instead of Potter’s Court. However, when I had found\n",
      "the court, I had no difficulty in discovering Corcoran’s lodging-house.\n",
      "When I asked the man who came to the door for the “depite,” he shook his\n",
      "of that kind livin’ ere or anywheres.” I took out Smollet’s letter, and\n",
      "of the court might guide me. “What are you?” I asked.\n",
      "deputy’s knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam, who\n",
      "Corcoran’s, had left for his work at Poplar at five o’clock that\n",
      "and with this slender clue I had to start for Poplar. It was twelve\n",
      "of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a\n",
      "coin of the realm, put me on the track of Bloxam; he was sent for on my\n",
      "that he had made two journeys between Carfax and a house in Piccadilly,\n",
      "asked him if he could tell me the number of the house in Piccadilly, to\n",
      "“Well, guv’nor, I forgits the number, but it was only a few doors from a\n",
      "“How did you get into the houses if they were both empty?”\n",
      "“There was the old party what engaged me a-waitin’ in the ’ouse at\n",
      "Purfleet. He ’elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray. Curse\n",
      "How this phrase thrilled through me!\n",
      "“Why, ’e took up ’is end o’ the boxes like they was pounds of tea, and\n",
      "“How did you get into the house in Piccadilly?” I asked.\n",
      "“He was there too. He must ’a’ started off and got there afore me, for\n",
      "“The whole nine?” I asked.\n",
      "“Yus; there was five in the first load an’ four in the second. It was\n",
      "“Were the boxes left in the hall?”\n",
      "“Yus; it was a big ’all, an’ there was nothin’ else in it.” I made one\n",
      "“You didn’t have any key?”\n",
      "“Never used no key nor nothink. The old gent, he opened the door ’isself\n",
      "“And you can’t remember the number of the house?”\n",
      "“No, sir. But ye needn’t have no difficulty about that. It’s a ’igh ’un\n",
      "off for Piccadilly. I had gained a new painful experience; the Count\n",
      "unobserved. At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked\n",
      "westward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house\n",
      "arranged by Dracula. The house looked as though it had been long\n",
      "Behind the rails of the balcony I saw there were some loose boards,\n",
      "experience of the investigation and purchase of Carfax, and I could not\n",
      "There was at present nothing to be learned from the Piccadilly side, and\n",
      "Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation. I asked one or two of the\n",
      "very lately there had been a notice-board of “For Sale” up, and that\n",
      "perhaps Mitchell, Sons, & Candy, the house agents, could tell me\n",
      "did not lose any time. Having learned the address of Mitchell, Sons, &\n",
      "Candy from a directory at the Berkeley, I was soon at their office in\n",
      "Sackville Street.\n",
      "The gentleman who saw me was particularly suave in manner, but\n",
      "Piccadilly house--which throughout our interview he called a\n",
      "“It is sold, sir.”\n",
      "“Pardon me,” I said, with equal politeness, “but I have a special reason\n",
      "Again he paused longer, and raised his eyebrows still more. “It is sold,\n",
      "“Surely,” I said, “you do not mind letting me know so much.”\n",
      "“But I do mind,” he answered. “The affairs of their clients are\n",
      "absolutely safe in the hands of Mitchell, Sons, & Candy.” This was\n",
      "“Your clients, sir, are happy in having so resolute a guardian of their\n",
      "confidence. I am myself a professional man.” Here I handed him my card.\n",
      "“In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of\n",
      "Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was,\n",
      "he understood, lately for sale.” These words put a different complexion\n",
      "“I would like to oblige you if I could, Mr. Harker, and especially would\n",
      "renting some chambers for him when he was the Honourable Arthur\n",
      "Holmwood. If you will let me have his lordship’s address I will consult\n",
      "the House on the subject, and will, in any case, communicate with his\n",
      "gave the address at Dr. Seward’s and came away. It was now dark, and I\n",
      "was tired and hungry. I got a cup of tea at the Aërated Bread Company\n",
      "and came down to Purfleet by the next train.\n",
      "inquietude. Thank God, this will be the last night of her looking on at\n",
      "amongst ourselves--I took Mina to her room and left her to go to bed.\n",
      "The dear girl was more affectionate with me than ever, and clung to me\n",
      "came away. Thank God, the ceasing of telling things has made no\n",
      "When I came down again I found the others all gathered round the fire in\n",
      "information; when I had finished Van Helsing said:--\n",
      "“This has been a great day’s work, friend Jonathan. Doubtless we are on\n",
      "wretch to his real death.” We all sat silent awhile and all at once Mr.\n",
      "Morris spoke:--\n",
      "“Say! how are we going to get into that house?”\n",
      "“We got into the other,” answered Lord Godalming quickly.\n",
      "“But, Art, this is different. We broke house at Carfax, but we had night\n",
      "commit burglary in Piccadilly, either by day or night. I confess I don’t\n",
      "morning.” Lord Godalming’s brows contracted, and he stood up and walked\n",
      "“Quincey’s head is level. This burglary business is getting serious; we\n",
      "can find the Count’s key basket.”\n",
      "As nothing could well be done before morning, and as it would be at\n",
      "least advisable to wait till Lord Godalming should hear from Mitchell’s,\n",
      "Just a line. Mina sleeps soundly and her breathing is regular. Her\n",
      "herself at home in Exeter. Oh, but I am sleepy!\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_1 October._--I am puzzled afresh about Renfield. His moods change so\n",
      "repulse of Van Helsing, his manner was that of a man commanding destiny.\n",
      "He was, in fact, commanding destiny--subjectively. He did not really\n",
      "“What about the flies these times?” He smiled on me in quite a superior\n",
      "sort of way--such a smile as would have become the face of Malvolio--as\n",
      "“The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical\n",
      "“Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?” His madness foiled his\n",
      "“Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want.” Here he brightened\n",
      "This puzzled me a little, so I drew him on:--\n",
      "“Then you command life; you are a god, I suppose?” He smiled with an\n",
      "“Oh no! Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the\n",
      "Deity. I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings. If I\n",
      "purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied\n",
      "spiritually!” This was a poser to me. I could not at the moment recall\n",
      "Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt\n",
      "“And why with Enoch?”\n",
      "“Because he walked with God.” I could not see the analogy, but did not\n",
      "“So you don’t care about life and you don’t want souls. Why not?” I put\n",
      "The effort succeeded; for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his\n",
      "or----” He suddenly stopped and the old cunning look spread over his\n",
      "face, like a wind-sweep on the surface of the water. “And doctor, as to\n",
      "life, what is it after all? When you’ve got all you require, and you\n",
      "friends--like you, Dr. Seward”; this was said with a leer of\n",
      "Later in the day he sent for me. Ordinarily I would not have come\n",
      "Lord Godalming and Quincey. Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the\n",
      "record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate\n",
      "might not care to go again. There was also another reason: Renfield\n",
      "“What about souls?” It was evident then that my surmise had been\n",
      "lunatic. I determined to have the matter out. “What about them\n",
      "cruel only to be kind.” So I said:--\n",
      "“You like life, and you want life?”\n",
      "“Oh yes! but that is all right; you needn’t worry about that!”\n",
      "“But,” I asked, “how are we to get the life without getting the soul\n",
      "also?” This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up:--\n",
      "know, and you must put up with their souls!” Something seemed to affect\n",
      "“Would you like some sugar to get your flies round again?” He seemed to\n",
      "“Not much! flies are poor things, after all!” After a pause he added,\n",
      "“But I don’t want their souls buzzing round me, all the same.”\n",
      "“Or spiders?” I went on.\n",
      "“Blow spiders! What’s the use of spiders? There isn’t anything in them\n",
      "“So, so!” I thought to myself, “this is the second time he has suddenly\n",
      "stopped at the word ‘drink’; what does it mean?” Renfield seemed himself\n",
      "“I don’t take any stock at all in such matters. ‘Rats and mice and such\n",
      "small deer,’ as Shakespeare has it, ‘chicken-feed of the larder’ they\n",
      "“I see,” I said. “You want big things that you can make your teeth meet\n",
      "in? How would you like to breakfast on elephant?”\n",
      "“What ridiculous nonsense you are talking!” He was getting too wide\n",
      "The effect I desired was obtained, for he at once fell from his\n",
      "his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement. “To\n",
      "hell with you and your souls!” he shouted. “Why do you plague me about\n",
      "souls? Haven’t I got enough to worry, and pain, and distract me already,\n",
      "without thinking of souls!” He looked so hostile that I thought he was\n",
      "“Forgive me, Doctor; I forgot myself. You do not need any help. I am so\n",
      "sure you will understand!” He had evidently self-control; so when the\n",
      "“Dr. Seward, you have been very considerate towards me. Believe me that\n",
      "this man’s state. Several points seem to make what the American\n",
      "Here they are:--\n",
      "Will not mention “drinking.”\n",
      "Fears the thought of being burdened with the “soul” of anything.\n",
      "Has no dread of wanting “life” in the future.\n",
      "Despises the meaner forms of life altogether, though he dreads being\n",
      "Logically all these things point one way! he has assurance of some kind\n",
      "And the assurance--?\n",
      "Merciful God! the Count has been to him, and there is some new scheme of\n",
      "_Later._--I went after my round to Van Helsing and told him my\n",
      "while asked me to take him to Renfield. I did so. As we came to the door\n",
      "His is a curious case indeed; we must watch him to-night.\n",
      "_Letter, Mitchell, Sons and Candy to Lord Godalming._\n",
      "_“1 October._\n",
      "“My Lord,\n",
      "“We are at all times only too happy to meet your wishes. We beg, with\n",
      "regard to the desire of your Lordship, expressed by Mr. Harker on your\n",
      "purchase of No. 347, Piccadilly. The original vendors are the executors\n",
      "of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield. The purchaser is a foreign\n",
      "nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the\n",
      "purchase money in notes ‘over the counter,’ if your Lordship will pardon\n",
      "“We are, my Lord,\n",
      "“Your Lordship’s humble servants,\n",
      "“MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_2 October._--I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to\n",
      "make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield’s room,\n",
      "in the study--Mrs. Harker having gone to bed--we discussed the attempts\n",
      "Before going to bed I went round to the patient’s room and looked in\n",
      "This morning the man on duty reported to me that a little after midnight\n",
      "To-day Harker is out following up his clue, and Art and Quincey are\n",
      "earth between sunrise and sunset; we shall thus catch the Count at his\n",
      "weakest, and without a refuge to fly to. Van Helsing is off to the\n",
      "British Museum looking up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old\n",
      "and the Professor is searching for witch and demon cures which may be\n",
      "_Later._--We have met again. We seem at last to be on the track, and our\n",
      "Renfield’s quiet has anything to do with this. His moods have so\n",
      "followed the doings of the Count, that the coming destruction of the\n",
      "valuable clue. He is now seemingly quiet for a spell.... Is he?---- That\n",
      "The attendant came bursting into my room and told me that Renfield had\n",
      "CHAPTER XXI\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY\n",
      "_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\n",
      "When I came to Renfield’s room I found him lying on the floor on his\n",
      "the whole side of his face are paralysed.” How such a thing could have\n",
      "Eversfield Asylum before anyone could lay hands on her. And I suppose he\n",
      "“Go to Dr. Van Helsing, and ask him to kindly come here at once. I want\n",
      "him without an instant’s delay.” The man ran off, and within a few\n",
      "minutes the Professor, in his dressing gown and slippers, appeared. When\n",
      "he saw Renfield on the ground, he looked keenly at him a moment, and\n",
      "“Ah, a sad accident! He will need very careful watching, and much\n",
      "If you will remain I shall in a few minutes join you.”\n",
      "The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that\n",
      "he had suffered some terrible injury. Van Helsing returned with\n",
      "“Send the attendant away. We must be alone with him when he becomes\n",
      "conscious, after the operation.” So I said:--\n",
      "“I think that will do now, Simmons. We have done all that we can at\n",
      "present. You had better go your round, and Dr. Van Helsing will operate.\n",
      "Let me know instantly if there be anything unusual anywhere.”\n",
      "The man withdrew, and we went into a strict examination of the patient.\n",
      "The wounds of the face was superficial; the real injury was a depressed\n",
      "Professor thought a moment and said:--\n",
      "“We must reduce the pressure and get back to normal conditions, as far\n",
      "too late.” As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I\n",
      "went over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and\n",
      "Quincey in pajamas and slippers: the former spoke:--\n",
      "“I heard your man call up Dr. Van Helsing and tell him of an accident.\n",
      "So I woke Quincey or rather called for him as he was not asleep. Things\n",
      "till they had entered; then I closed it again. When Quincey saw the\n",
      "“My God! what has happened to him? Poor, poor devil!” I told him\n",
      "down on the edge of the bed, with Godalming beside him; we all watched\n",
      "“We shall wait,” said Van Helsing, “just long enough to fix the best\n",
      "The minutes during which we waited passed with fearful slowness. I had a\n",
      "horrible sinking in my heart, and from Van Helsing’s face I gathered\n",
      "the words that Renfield might speak. I was positively afraid to think;\n",
      "At last there came a time when it was evident that the patient was\n",
      "sinking fast; he might die at any moment. I looked up at the Professor\n",
      "“There is no time to lose. His words may be worth many lives; I have\n",
      "We shall operate just above the ear.”\n",
      "Without another word he made the operation. For a few moments the\n",
      "Suddenly his eyes opened, and became fixed in a wild, helpless stare.\n",
      "This was continued for a few moments; then it softened into a glad\n",
      "“I’ll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait-waistcoat. I\n",
      "dreadfully.” He tried to turn his head; but even with the effort his\n",
      "eyes seemed to grow glassy again so I gently put it back. Then Van\n",
      "Helsing said in a quiet grave tone:--\n",
      "“Tell us your dream, Mr. Renfield.” As he heard the voice his face\n",
      "“That is Dr. Van Helsing. How good it is of you to be here. Give me some\n",
      "stopped and seemed fainting, I called quietly to Quincey--“The\n",
      "brandy--it is in my study--quick!” He flew and returned with a glass,\n",
      "Then his eyes roved round the room; as they caught sight of the two\n",
      "“If I were not sure already, I would know from them.” For an instant his\n",
      "“Quick, Doctor, quick. I am dying! I feel that I have but a few minutes;\n",
      "and then I must go back to death--or worse! Wet my lips with brandy\n",
      "crushed brain dies anyhow. Thank you! It was that night after you left\n",
      "dogs bark behind our house, but not where He was!” As he spoke, Van\n",
      "Helsing’s eyes never blinked, but his hand came out and met mine and\n",
      "and said: “Go on,” in a low voice. Renfield proceeded:--\n",
      "“He came up to the window in the mist, as I had seen him often before;\n",
      "Then he began promising me things--not in words but by doing them.” He\n",
      "was interrupted by a word from the Professor:--\n",
      "“How?”\n",
      "“By making them happen; just as he used to send in the flies when the\n",
      "backs.” Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously:--\n",
      "“The _Acherontia Aitetropos of the Sphinges_--what you call the\n",
      "‘Death’s-head Moth’?” The patient went on without stopping.\n",
      "“Then he began to whisper: ‘Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands,\n",
      "Then the dogs howled, away beyond the dark trees in His house. He\n",
      "beckoned me to the window. I got up and looked out, and He raised his\n",
      "then He moved the mist to the right and left, and I could see that there\n",
      "were thousands of rats with their eyes blazing red--like His, only\n",
      "seemed to be saying: ‘All these lives will I give you, ay, and many more\n",
      "me!’ And then a red cloud, like the colour of blood, seemed to close\n",
      "the sash and saying to Him: ‘Come in, Lord and Master!’ The rats were\n",
      "all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only\n",
      "open an inch wide--just as the Moon herself has often come in through\n",
      "His voice was weaker, so I moistened his lips with the brandy again, and\n",
      "back to the point, but Van Helsing whispered to me: “Let him go on. Do\n",
      "if once he lost the thread of his thought.” He proceeded:--\n",
      "“All day I waited to hear from him, but he did not send me anything, not\n",
      "When he slid in through the window, though it was shut, and did not even\n",
      "as he went by me. I couldn’t hold him. I thought that, somehow, Mrs.\n",
      "Harker had come into the room.”\n",
      "The two men sitting on the bed stood up and came over, standing behind\n",
      "They were both silent, but the Professor started and quivered; his face,\n",
      "“When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same;\n",
      "it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.” Here we all moved,\n",
      "to know that He had been taking the life out of her.” I could feel that\n",
      "the rest quivered, as I did, but we remained otherwise still. “So when\n",
      "He came to-night I was ready for Him. I saw the mist stealing in, and I\n",
      "Ay, and He felt it too, for He had to come out of the mist to struggle\n",
      "mean Him to take any more of her life, till I saw His eyes. They burned\n",
      "when I tried to cling to Him, He raised me up and flung me down. There\n",
      "to steal away under the door.” His voice was becoming fainter and his\n",
      "breath more stertorous. Van Helsing stood up instinctively.\n",
      "“We know the worst now,” he said. “He is here, and we know his purpose.\n",
      "It may not be too late. Let us be armed--the same as we were the other\n",
      "night, but lose no time; there is not an instant to spare.” There was no\n",
      "had when we entered the Count’s house. The Professor had his ready, and\n",
      "“They never leave me; and they shall not till this unhappy business is\n",
      "Alas! alas! that that dear Madam Mina should suffer!” He stopped; his\n",
      "Outside the Harkers’ door we paused. Art and Quincey held back, and the\n",
      "“Should we disturb her?”\n",
      "“We must,” said Van Helsing grimly. “If the door be locked, I shall\n",
      "“May it not frighten her terribly? It is unusual to break into a lady’s\n",
      "Van Helsing said solemnly, “You are always right; but this is life and\n",
      "are all as one to me to-night. Friend John, when I turn the handle, if\n",
      "He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw\n",
      "headlong into the room. The Professor did actually fall, and I saw\n",
      "The moonlight was so bright that through the thick yellow blind the room\n",
      "was light enough to see. On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan\n",
      "Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor.\n",
      "Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad\n",
      "His face was turned from us, but the instant we saw we all recognised\n",
      "the Count--in every way, even to the scar on his forehead. With his left\n",
      "hand he held both Mrs. Harker’s hands, keeping them away with her arms\n",
      "compel it to drink. As we burst into the room, the Count turned his\n",
      "and sprang at us. But by this time the Professor had gained his feet,\n",
      "and was holding towards him the envelope which contained the Sacred\n",
      "Wafer. The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside\n",
      "under Quincey’s match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour. This, as we\n",
      "open, had swung back to its old position. Van Helsing, Art, and I moved\n",
      "forward to Mrs. Harker, who by this time had drawn her breath and with\n",
      "Count’s terrible grip, and from behind them came a low desolate wail\n",
      "endless grief. Van Helsing stepped forward and drew the coverlet gently\n",
      "over her body, whilst Art, after looking at her face for an instant\n",
      "despairingly, ran out of the room. Van Helsing whispered to me:--\n",
      "“Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce. We can\n",
      "do nothing with poor Madam Mina for a few moments till she recovers\n",
      "herself; I must wake him!” He dipped the end of a towel in cold water\n",
      "window. There was much moonshine; and as I looked I could see Quincey\n",
      "Morris run across the lawn and hide himself in the shadow of a great\n",
      "instant I heard Harker’s quick exclamation as he woke to partial\n",
      "“In God’s name what does this mean?” Harker cried out. “Dr. Seward, Dr.\n",
      "Van Helsing, what is it? What has happened? What is wrong? Mina, dear,\n",
      "what is it? What does that blood mean? My God, my God! has it come to\n",
      "together. “Good God help us! help her! oh, help her!” With a quick\n",
      "man in him awake at the need for instant exertion. “What has happened?\n",
      "Tell me all about it!” he cried without pausing. “Dr. Van Helsing, you\n",
      "love Mina, I know. Oh, do something to save her. It cannot have gone too\n",
      "far yet. Guard her while I look for _him_!” His wife, through her terror\n",
      "“No! no! Jonathan, you must not leave me. I have suffered enough\n",
      "to-night, God knows, without the dread of his harming you. You must stay\n",
      "with me. Stay with these friends who will watch over you!” Her\n",
      "Van Helsing and I tried to calm them both. The Professor held up his\n",
      "“Do not fear, my dear. We are here; and whilst this is close to you no\n",
      "and take counsel together.” She shuddered and was silent, holding down\n",
      "“Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it\n",
      "most cause to fear.” To this he spoke out resolutely:--\n",
      "“Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not\n",
      "hear it of you; and I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my\n",
      "if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!” He put out\n",
      "“And now, Dr. Seward, tell me all about it. Too well I know the broad\n",
      "and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had\n",
      "hair. Just as I had finished, Quincey and Godalming knocked at the door.\n",
      "They entered in obedience to our summons. Van Helsing looked at me\n",
      "to him he asked them what they had seen or done. To which Lord Godalming\n",
      "however----” He stopped suddenly, looking at the poor drooping figure on\n",
      "the bed. Van Helsing said gravely:--\n",
      "“Go on, friend Arthur. We want here no more concealments. Our hope now\n",
      "is in knowing all. Tell freely!” So Art went on:--\n",
      "“He had been there, and though it could only have been for a few\n",
      "had helped the flames.” Here I interrupted. “Thank God there is the\n",
      "other copy in the safe!” His face lit for a moment, but fell again as he\n",
      "into Renfield’s room; but there was no trace there except----!” Again he\n",
      "paused. “Go on,” said Harker hoarsely; so he bowed his head and\n",
      "is dead.” Mrs. Harker raised her head, looking from one to the other of\n",
      "“God’s will be done!” I could not but feel that Art was keeping back\n",
      "Van Helsing turned to Morris and asked:--\n",
      "“And you, friend Quincey, have you any to tell?”\n",
      "“A little,” he answered. “It may be much eventually, but at present I\n",
      "can’t say. I thought it well to know if possible where the Count would\n",
      "Renfield’s window, and flap westward. I expected to see him in some\n",
      "shape go back to Carfax; but he evidently sought some other lair. He\n",
      "He said the latter words through his shut teeth. For a space of perhaps\n",
      "hear the sound of our hearts beating; then Van Helsing said, placing his\n",
      "hand very tenderly on Mrs. Harker’s head:--\n",
      "“And now, Madam Mina--poor, dear, dear Madam Mina--tell us exactly what\n",
      "The poor, dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves\n",
      "out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his, and, after stooping and\n",
      "After a pause in which she was evidently ordering her thoughts, she\n",
      "Her husband involuntarily groaned as she turned to him and said\n",
      "lovingly: “Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me\n",
      "I turned to wake Jonathan, but found that he slept so soundly that it\n",
      "sunset on the windows of St. Mary’s Church at Whitby. I knew, too, the\n",
      "red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him. For an instant\n",
      "pointing as he spoke to Jonathan:--\n",
      "“‘Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out\n",
      "so, ‘First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well\n",
      "such is, when his touch is on his victim. And oh, my God, my God, pity\n",
      "me! He placed his reeking lips upon my throat!” Her husband groaned\n",
      "saw it drip with the fresh blood!” The remembrance seemed for a while to\n",
      "“Then he spoke to me mockingly, ‘And so you, like the others, would play\n",
      "frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already,\n",
      "call. When my brain says “Come!” to you, you shall cross land or sea to\n",
      "do my bidding; and to that end this!’ With that he pulled open his\n",
      "the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the---- Oh\n",
      "my God! my God! what have I done? What have I done to deserve such a\n",
      "days. God pity me! Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril;\n",
      "and in mercy pity those to whom she is dear!” Then she began to rub her\n",
      "As she was telling her terrible story, the eastern sky began to quicken,\n",
      "We have arranged that one of us is to stay within call of the unhappy\n",
      "Of this I am sure: the sun rises to-day on no more miserable house in\n",
      "CHAPTER XXII\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It\n",
      "take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\n",
      "that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God\n",
      "not have landed Mina or me anywhere worse than we are to-day. However,\n",
      "we must trust and hope. Poor Mina told me just now, with the tears\n",
      "faith is tested--that we must keep on trusting; and that God will aid us\n",
      "up to the end. The end! oh my God! what end?... To work! To work!\n",
      "When Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward had come back from seeing poor\n",
      "Renfield, we went gravely into what was to be done. First, Dr. Seward\n",
      "told us that when he and Dr. Van Helsing had gone down to the room below\n",
      "they had found Renfield lying on the floor, all in a heap. His face was\n",
      "Dr. Seward asked the attendant who was on duty in the passage if he had\n",
      "half dozing--when he heard loud voices in the room, and then Renfield\n",
      "had called out loudly several times, “God! God! God!” after that there\n",
      "on the floor, face down, just as the doctors had seen him. Van Helsing\n",
      "to it, if required, that the word “God” was spoken by the patient. Dr.\n",
      "Seward said to us, when we were alone, that he did not wish to go into\n",
      "When the question began to be discussed as to what should be our next\n",
      "step, the very first thing we decided was that Mina should be in full\n",
      "despair. “There must be no concealment,” she said, “Alas! we have had\n",
      "Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!”\n",
      "Van Helsing was looking at her fixedly as she spoke, and said, suddenly\n",
      "“But dear Madam Mina, are you not afraid; not for yourself, but for\n",
      "others from yourself, after what has happened?” Her face grew set in its\n",
      "“Ah no! for my mind is made up!”\n",
      "“To what?” he asked gently, whilst we were all very still; for each in\n",
      "“Because if I find in myself--and I shall watch keenly for it--a sign of\n",
      "“You would not kill yourself?” he asked, hoarsely.\n",
      "pain, and so desperate an effort!” She looked at him meaningly as she\n",
      "“My child, there is such an one if it were for your good. For myself I\n",
      "could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you,\n",
      "even at this moment if it were best. Nay, were it safe! But my\n",
      "child----” For a moment he seemed choked, and a great sob rose in his\n",
      "“There are here some who would stand between you and death. You must not\n",
      "die; for if he is still with the quick Un-Dead, your death would make\n",
      "you even as he is. No, you must live! You must struggle and strive to\n",
      "live, though death would seem a boon unspeakable. You must fight Death\n",
      "night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge you that you\n",
      "do not die--nay, nor think of death--till this great evil be past.” The\n",
      "“I promise you, my dear friend, that if God will let me live, I shall\n",
      "strive to do so; till, if it may be in His good time, this horror may\n",
      "have passed away from me.” She was so good and brave that we all felt\n",
      "She was pleased with the prospect of anything to do--if “pleased” could\n",
      "As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was\n",
      "“It is perhaps well,” he said, “that at our meeting after our visit to\n",
      "Carfax we decided not to do anything with the earth-boxes that lay\n",
      "there. Had we done so, the Count must have guessed our purpose, and\n",
      "Piccadilly, we may track the very last of them. To-day, then, is ours;\n",
      "and the destroying shall be, in time, sure.” Here I started up for I\n",
      "preciously laden with Mina’s life and happiness were flying from us,\n",
      "since whilst we talked action was impossible. But Van Helsing held up\n",
      "his hand warningly. “Nay, friend Jonathan,” he said, “in this, the\n",
      "all probable the key of the situation is in that house in Piccadilly.\n",
      "The Count may have many houses which he has bought. Of them he will have\n",
      "friend Arthur call, in his phrases of hunt ‘stop the earths’ and so we\n",
      "“Then let us come at once,” I cried, “we are wasting the precious,\n",
      "precious time!” The Professor did not move, but simply said:--\n",
      "“And how are we to get into that house in Piccadilly?”\n",
      "“Any way!” I cried. “We shall break in if need be.”\n",
      "“And your police; where will they be, and what will they say?”\n",
      "“Don’t wait more than need be; you know, I am sure, what torture I am\n",
      "“Ah, my child, that I do; and indeed there is no wish of me to add to\n",
      "“Now suppose that you were, in truth, the owner of that house, and could\n",
      "“And your police, they would interfere, would they not?”\n",
      "“Oh, no! not if they knew the man was properly employed.”\n",
      "“Then,” he looked at me as keenly as he spoke, “all that is in doubt is\n",
      "friend Jonathan, you go take the lock off a hundred empty house in this\n",
      "your London, or of any city in the world; and if you do it as such\n",
      "house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland\n",
      "they can. And when that owner come back from his holiday in Switzerland\n",
      "I could not but see how right he was and the terrible despair of Mina’s\n",
      "Helsing went on:--\n",
      "“When once within that house we may find more clues; at any rate some of\n",
      "more earth-boxes--at Bermondsey and Mile End.”\n",
      "Lord Godalming stood up. “I can be of some use here,” he said. “I shall\n",
      "“Look here, old fellow,” said Morris, “it is a capital idea to have all\n",
      "Walworth or Mile End would attract too much attention for our purposes?\n",
      "It seems to me that we ought to take cabs when we go south or east; and\n",
      "“Friend Quincey is right!” said the Professor. “His head is what you\n",
      "Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced to see\n",
      "what had occurred with poor Lucy when the Count had sucked her blood. As\n",
      "When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the\n",
      "finally agreed that before starting for Piccadilly we should destroy the\n",
      "Count’s lair close at hand. In case he should find it out too soon, we\n",
      "As to the disposal of forces, it was suggested by the Professor that,\n",
      "after our visit to Carfax, we should all enter the house in Piccadilly;\n",
      "that the two doctors and I should remain there, whilst Lord Godalming\n",
      "and Quincey found the lairs at Walworth and Mile End and destroyed them.\n",
      "It was possible, if not likely, the Professor urged, that the Count\n",
      "might appear in Piccadilly during the day, and that if so we might be\n",
      "Mina, I thought that my mind was made up on the subject; but Mina would\n",
      "in which I could be useful; that amongst the Count’s papers might be\n",
      "some clue which I could understand out of my experience in Transylvania;\n",
      "cope with the Count’s extraordinary power. I had to give in, for Mina’s\n",
      "we should all work together. “As for me,” she said, “I have no fear.\n",
      "Things have been as bad as they can be; and whatever may happen must\n",
      "have in it some element of hope or comfort. Go, my husband! God can, if\n",
      "He wishes it, guard me as well alone as with any one present.” So I\n",
      "started up crying out: “Then in God’s name let us come at once, for we\n",
      "are losing time. The Count may come to Piccadilly earlier than we\n",
      "“Not so!” said Van Helsing, holding up his hand.\n",
      "“But why?” I asked.\n",
      "“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he\n",
      "Did I forget! shall I ever--can I ever! Can any of us ever forget that\n",
      "terrible scene! Mina struggled hard to keep her brave countenance; but\n",
      "shuddered whilst she moaned. Van Helsing had not intended to recall her\n",
      "he was horrified at his thoughtlessness and tried to comfort her. “Oh,\n",
      "Madam Mina,” he said, “dear, dear Madam Mina, alas! that I of all who so\n",
      "forget it, will you not?” He bent low beside her as he spoke; she took\n",
      "“No, I shall not forget, for it is well that I remember; and with it I\n",
      "Breakfast was a strange meal to us all. We tried to be cheerful and\n",
      "encourage each other, and Mina was the brightest and most cheerful of\n",
      "us. When it was over, Van Helsing stood up and said:--\n",
      "“Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we\n",
      "lair; armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?” We all assured\n",
      "him. “Then it is well. Now, Madam Mina, you are in any case _quite_ safe\n",
      "here until the sunset; and before then we shall return--if---- We shall\n",
      "return! But before we go let me see you armed against personal attack. I\n",
      "of things of which we know, so that He may not enter. Now let me guard\n",
      "yourself. On your forehead I touch this piece of Sacred Wafer in the\n",
      "name of the Father, the Son, and----”\n",
      "There was a fearful scream which almost froze our hearts to hear. As he\n",
      "had placed the Wafer on Mina’s forehead, it had seared it--had burned\n",
      "“Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must\n",
      "bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day.” They\n",
      "their eyes that ran tears silently. Then Van Helsing turned and said\n",
      "“It may be that you may have to bear that mark till God himself see fit,\n",
      "as He most surely shall, on the Judgment Day, to redress all wrongs of\n",
      "the earth and of His children that He has placed thereon. And oh, Madam\n",
      "Mina, my dear, my dear, may we who love you be there to see, when that\n",
      "red scar, the sign of God’s knowledge of what has been, shall pass away,\n",
      "we live, that scar shall pass away when God sees right to lift the\n",
      "burden that is hard upon us. Till then we bear our Cross, as His Son did\n",
      "in obedience to His Will. It may be that we are chosen instruments of\n",
      "His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His bidding as that other\n",
      "fears, and all that makes the difference between God and man.”\n",
      "There was hope in his words, and comfort; and they made for resignation.\n",
      "Mina and I both felt so, and simultaneously we each took one of the old\n",
      "It was then time to start. So I said farewell to Mina, a parting which\n",
      "To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a\n",
      "We entered Carfax without trouble and found all things the same as on\n",
      "Dr. Van Helsing said to us solemnly as we stood before them:--\n",
      "“And now, my friends, we have a duty here to do. We must sterilise this\n",
      "God.” As he spoke he took from his bag a screwdriver and a wrench, and\n",
      "was concentrated on the Professor. Taking from his box a piece of the\n",
      "Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down\n",
      "One by one we treated in the same way each of the great boxes, and left\n",
      "of the Host.\n",
      "When we closed the door behind us, the Professor said solemnly:--\n",
      "“So much is already done. If it may be that with all the others we can\n",
      "be so successful, then the sunset of this evening may shine on Madam\n",
      "Mina’s forehead all white as ivory and with no stain!”\n",
      "As we passed across the lawn on our way to the station to catch our\n",
      "window of my own room saw Mina. I waved my hand to her, and nodded to\n",
      "_Piccadilly, 12:30 o’clock._--Just before we reached Fenchurch Street\n",
      "Lord Godalming said to me:--\n",
      "“Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in\n",
      "solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you\n",
      "even of odium, but he went on: “Besides, it will attract less attention\n",
      "better go with Jack and the Professor and stay in the Green Park,\n",
      "“The advice is good!” said Van Helsing, so we said no more. Godalming\n",
      "and Morris hurried off in a cab, we following in another. At the corner\n",
      "of Arlington Street our contingent got out and strolled into the Green\n",
      "Park. My heart beat as I saw the house on which so much of our hope was\n",
      "At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely\n",
      "fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris; and down from the box descended\n",
      "ascended the steps, and Lord Godalming pointed out what he wanted done.\n",
      "The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes\n",
      "turning to his employers, made some remark. Lord Godalming smiled, and\n",
      "entered the hall. We sat still; my own cigar burnt furiously, but Van\n",
      "Helsing’s went cold altogether. We waited patiently as we saw the\n",
      "This he finally handed to Lord Godalming, who took out his purse and\n",
      "When the man had fairly gone, we three crossed the street and knocked at\n",
      "the door. It was immediately opened by Quincey Morris, beside whom stood\n",
      "Lord Godalming lighting a cigar.\n",
      "“The place smells so vilely,” said the latter as we came in. It did\n",
      "indeed smell vilely--like the old chapel at Carfax--and with our\n",
      "previous experience it was plain to us that the Count had been using the\n",
      "with, and as yet we did not know whether the Count might not be in the\n",
      "Our work was not over, and would never be until we should have found the\n",
      "Count was not at present in the house, and we proceeded to search for\n",
      "After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic,\n",
      "which might belong to the Count; and so we proceeded to minutely examine\n",
      "table. There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle;\n",
      "deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey;\n",
      "the other houses. When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming\n",
      "and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the\n",
      "houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great\n",
      "the Count.\n",
      "CHAPTER XXIII\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY\n",
      "_3 October._--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for\n",
      "the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep\n",
      "purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.\n",
      "The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see.\n",
      "Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful\n",
      "thought my own trouble was bad enough, but his----! The Professor knows\n",
      "it. As I learned from the researches of my friend Arminus of Buda-Pesth,\n",
      "attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time\n",
      "In some faculties of mind he has been, and is, only a child; but he is\n",
      "lead through Death, not Life.”\n",
      "Harker groaned and said, “And this is all arrayed against my darling!\n",
      "But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!”\n",
      "“He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but\n",
      "and to go slow. _Festina lente_ may well be his motto.”\n",
      "“I fail to understand,” said Harker wearily. “Oh, do be more plain to\n",
      "me! Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain.”\n",
      "The Professor laid his hand tenderly on his shoulder as he spoke:--\n",
      "“Ah, my child, I will be plain. Do you not see how, of late, this\n",
      "John’s home; for your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come when\n",
      "hiding-place! But, my child, do not despair; this knowledge come to him\n",
      "just too late! Already all of his lairs but one be sterilise as for him;\n",
      "there not more at stake for us than for him? Then why we not be even\n",
      "more careful than him? By my clock it is one hour and already, if all be\n",
      "well, friend Arthur and Quincey are on their way to us. To-day is our\n",
      "Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the\n",
      "hall with one impulse, and Van Helsing, holding up his hand to us to\n",
      "despatch. The Professor closed the door again, and, after looking at the\n",
      "“Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax hurriedly and\n",
      "hastened towards the South. He seems to be going the round and may want\n",
      "to see you: Mina.”\n",
      "There was a pause, broken by Jonathan Harker’s voice:--\n",
      "“Now, God be thanked, we shall soon meet!” Van Helsing turned to him\n",
      "“God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice\n",
      "“Oh, hush, hush, my child!” said Van Helsing. “God does not purchase\n",
      "souls in this wise; and the Devil, though he may purchase, does not keep\n",
      "faith. But God is merciful and just, and knows your pain and your\n",
      "devotion to that dear Madam Mina. Think you, how her pain would be\n",
      "coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to the powers of man,\n",
      "is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first.”\n",
      "About half an hour after we had received Mrs. Harker’s telegram, there\n",
      "the Professor’s heart and mine beat loudly. We looked at each other, and\n",
      "Helsing pulled back the latch, and, holding the door half open, stood\n",
      "saw Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris. They came quickly in and closed\n",
      "“It is all right. We found both places; six boxes in each and we\n",
      "“Destroyed?” asked the Professor.\n",
      "“For him!” We were silent for a minute, and then Quincey said:--\n",
      "“There’s nothing to do but to wait here. If, however, he doesn’t turn up\n",
      "by five o’clock, we must start off; for it won’t do to leave Mrs. Harker\n",
      "“He will be here before long now,” said Van Helsing, who had been\n",
      "consulting his pocket-book. “_Nota bene_, in Madam’s telegram he went\n",
      "south from Carfax, that means he went to cross the river, and he could\n",
      "suspicious; and he went from Carfax first to the place where he would\n",
      "suspect interference least. You must have been at Bermondsey only a\n",
      "Mile End next. This took him some time; for he would then have to be\n",
      "arms! Be ready!” He held up a warning hand as he spoke, for we all could\n",
      "adventures in different parts of the world, Quincey Morris had always\n",
      "been the one to arrange the plan of action, and Arthur and I had been\n",
      "gesture, placed us each in position. Van Helsing, Harker, and I were\n",
      "just behind the door, so that when it was opened the Professor could\n",
      "Godalming behind and Quincey in front stood just out of sight ready to\n",
      "the hall; the Count was evidently prepared for some surprise--at least\n",
      "Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room, winning a way past\n",
      "Harker, who, with a quick movement, threw himself before the door\n",
      "leading into the room in the front of the house. As the Count saw us, a\n",
      "ready his great Kukri knife and made a fierce and sudden cut at him. The\n",
      "blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count’s\n",
      "fell out. The expression of the Count’s face was so hellish, that for a\n",
      "moment I feared for Harker, though I saw him throw the terrible knife\n",
      "protective impulse, holding the Crucifix and Wafer in my left hand. I\n",
      "the Count’s face. His waxen hue became greenish-yellow by the contrast\n",
      "dive he swept under Harker’s arm, ere his blow could fall, and, grasping\n",
      "We ran over and saw him spring unhurt from the ground. He, rushing up\n",
      "There he turned and spoke to us:--\n",
      "“You think to baffle me, you--with your pale faces all in a row, like\n",
      "sheep in a butcher’s. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think\n",
      "jackals when I want to feed. Bah!” With a contemptuous sneer, he passed\n",
      "to speak was the Professor, as, realising the difficulty of following\n",
      "“We have learnt something--much! Notwithstanding his brave words, he\n",
      "fears us; he fear time, he fear want! For if not, why he hurry so? His\n",
      "very tone betray him, or my ears deceive. Why take that money? You\n",
      "return.” As he spoke he put the money remaining into his pocket; took\n",
      "the title-deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the\n",
      "Godalming and Morris had rushed out into the yard, and Harker had\n",
      "lowered himself from the window to follow the Count. He had, however,\n",
      "was no sign of him. Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back\n",
      "It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off. We had to\n",
      "Professor when he said:--\n",
      "“Let us go back to Madam Mina--poor, poor dear Madam Mina. All we can do\n",
      "bravely as he could to comfort Harker. The poor fellow was quite broken\n",
      "With sad hearts we came back to my house, where we found Mrs. Harker\n",
      "“I can never thank you all enough. Oh, my poor darling!” As she spoke,\n",
      "she took her husband’s grey head in her hands and kissed it--“Lay your\n",
      "poor head here and rest it. All will yet be well, dear! God will protect\n",
      "us if He so will it in His good intent.” The poor fellow groaned. There\n",
      "We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us\n",
      "our promise, we told Mrs. Harker everything which had passed; and\n",
      "part where Harker had rushed at the Count so recklessly, she clung to\n",
      "purity and faith, was outcast from God.\n",
      "“Jonathan,” she said, and the word sounded like music on her lips it was\n",
      "so full of love and tenderness, “Jonathan dear, and you all my true,\n",
      "you destroyed the false Lucy so that the true Lucy might live hereafter;\n",
      "As she spoke I could see her husband’s face darken and draw together, as\n",
      "Instinctively the clasp on his wife’s hand grew closer, till his\n",
      "“May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that\n",
      "“Oh, hush! oh, hush! in the name of the good God. Don’t say such things,\n",
      "Jonathan, my husband; or you will crush me with fear and horror. Just\n",
      "other like you--and with equal cause for anger--may deny it to me! Oh,\n",
      "had there been another way; but I pray that God may not have treasured\n",
      "sorely stricken man. Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence\n",
      "We men were all in tears now. There was no resisting them, and we wept\n",
      "Her husband flung himself on his knees beside her, and putting his arms\n",
      "round her, hid his face in the folds of her dress. Van Helsing beckoned\n",
      "with their God.\n",
      "Before they retired the Professor fixed up the room against any coming\n",
      "of the Vampire, and assured Mrs. Harker that she might rest in peace.\n",
      "She tried to school herself to the belief, and, manifestly for her\n",
      "I think and believe, not without its reward. Van Helsing had placed at\n",
      "When they had retired, Quincey, Godalming, and I arranged that we should\n",
      "poor stricken lady. The first watch falls to Quincey, so the rest of us\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_3-4 October, close to midnight._--I thought yesterday would never end.\n",
      "There was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief\n",
      "earth-box remained, and that the Count alone knew where it was. If he\n",
      "This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that\n",
      "seem despicable. Surely God will not permit the world to be the poorer\n",
      "reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. Thank God! Mina is\n",
      "over her face a repose which was like spring after the blasts of March.\n",
      "_Later._--I must have fallen asleep, for I was awaked by Mina, who was\n",
      "“Hush! there is someone in the corridor!” I got up softly, and crossing\n",
      "Just outside, stretched on a mattress, lay Mr. Morris, wide awake. He\n",
      "“Hush! go back to bed; it is all right. One of us will be here all\n",
      "His look and gesture forbade discussion, so I came back and told Mina.\n",
      "She sighed and positively a shadow of a smile stole over her poor, pale\n",
      "“Oh, thank God for good brave men!” With a sigh she sank back again to\n",
      "_4 October, morning._--Once again during the night I was wakened by\n",
      "Mina. This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming\n",
      "“Go, call the Professor. I want to see him at once.”\n",
      "“Why?” I asked.\n",
      "“Is anything wrong?” he asked, in alarm.\n",
      "“No,” I replied; “but Mina wants to see Dr. Van Helsing at once.”\n",
      "“I will go,” he said, and hurried into the Professor’s room.\n",
      "In two or three minutes later Van Helsing was in the room in his\n",
      "dressing-gown, and Mr. Morris and Lord Godalming were with Dr. Seward at\n",
      "the door asking questions. When the Professor saw Mina smile--a\n",
      "“Oh, my dear Madam Mina, this is indeed a change. See! friend Jonathan,\n",
      "we have got our dear Madam Mina, as of old, back to us to-day!” Then\n",
      "turning to her, he said, cheerfully: “And what am I do for you? For at\n",
      "“I want you to hypnotise me!” she said. “Do it before the dawn, for I\n",
      "short!” Without a word he motioned her to sit up in bed.\n",
      "Looking fixedly at her, he commenced to make passes in front of her,\n",
      "her bosom could one know that she was alive. The Professor made a few\n",
      "impose silence, the Professor motioned to me to bring the others in.\n",
      "They came on tip-toe, closing the door behind them, and stood at the\n",
      "stillness was broken by Van Helsing’s voice speaking in a low level tone\n",
      "“Where are you?” The answer came in a neutral way:--\n",
      "“I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own.” For several\n",
      "minutes there was silence. Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood\n",
      "was growing lighter; without taking his eyes from Mina’s face, Dr. Van\n",
      "Helsing motioned me to pull up the blind. I did so, and the day seemed\n",
      "itself through the room. On the instant the Professor spoke again:--\n",
      "“Where are you now?” The answer came dreamily, but with intention; it\n",
      "“What do you see?”\n",
      "“What do you hear?” I could detect the strain in the Professor’s patient\n",
      "“The lapping of water. It is gurgling by, and little waves leap. I can\n",
      "“Then you are on a ship?” We all looked at each other, trying to glean\n",
      "“Oh, yes!”\n",
      "“What else do you hear?”\n",
      "“The sound of men stamping overhead as they run about. There is the\n",
      "“What are you doing?”\n",
      "“I am still--oh, so still. It is like death!” The voice faded away into\n",
      "By this time the sun had risen, and we were all in the full light of\n",
      "day. Dr. Van Helsing placed his hands on Mina’s shoulders, and laid her\n",
      "us all around her. “Have I been talking in my sleep?” was all she said.\n",
      "She seemed, however, to know the situation without telling, though she\n",
      "was eager to know what she had told. The Professor repeated the\n",
      "“Then there is not a moment to lose: it may not be yet too late!” Mr.\n",
      "Morris and Lord Godalming started for the door but the Professor’s calm\n",
      "“Stay, my friends. That ship, wherever it was, was weighing anchor\n",
      "your so great Port of London. Which of them is it that you seek? God be\n",
      "forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but\n",
      "that sentence is a puddle; is it not? We can know now what was in the\n",
      "Count’s mind, when he seize that money, though Jonathan’s so fierce\n",
      "me, ESCAPE! He saw that with but one earth-box left, and a pack of men\n",
      "following like dogs after a fox, this London was no place for him. He\n",
      "think to escape, but no! we follow him. Tally Ho! as friend Arthur would\n",
      "say when he put on his red frock! Our old fox is wily; oh! so wily, and\n",
      "us.” Mina looked at him appealingly as she asked:--\n",
      "“But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?” He\n",
      "“Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all\n",
      "questions.” He would say no more, and we separated to dress.\n",
      "After breakfast Mina repeated her question. He looked at her gravely for\n",
      "“Because my dear, dear Madam Mina, now more than ever must we find him\n",
      "even if we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell!” She grew paler as\n",
      "“Why?”\n",
      "“Because,” he answered solemnly, “he can live for centuries, and you are\n",
      "CHAPTER XXIV\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING\n",
      "This to Jonathan Harker.\n",
      "You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our\n",
      "This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him\n",
      "to his Castle in Transylvania. I know it so well, as if a great hand of\n",
      "he think poor Miss Lucy, being as he thought like him, keep open to him.\n",
      "But there was not of time. When that fail he make straight for his last\n",
      "He is clever, oh, so clever! he know that his game here was finish; and\n",
      "comfort you and poor dear Madam Mina with new hope. For it will be hope\n",
      "pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as London; and yet in\n",
      "But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong\n",
      "together. Take heart afresh, dear husband of Madam Mina. This battle is\n",
      "but begun, and in the end we shall win--so sure as that God sits on high\n",
      "to watch over His children. Therefore be of much comfort till we return.\n",
      "VAN HELSING.\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_4 October._--When I read to Mina, Van Helsing’s message in the\n",
      "certainty that the Count is out of the country has given her comfort;\n",
      "believe in it. Even my own terrible experiences in Castle Dracula seem\n",
      "Alas! how can I disbelieve! In the midst of my thought my eye fell on\n",
      "Mina says that perhaps we are the instruments of ultimate good. It may\n",
      "yet of the future. It is better to wait till we see the Professor and\n",
      "The day is running by more quickly than I ever thought a day could run\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_5 October, 5 p. m._--Our meeting for report. Present: Professor Van\n",
      "Helsing, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, Mr. Quincey Morris, Jonathan\n",
      "Harker, Mina Harker.\n",
      "Dr. Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to\n",
      "discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape:--\n",
      "“As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure that\n",
      "he must go by the Danube mouth; or by somewhere in the Black Sea, since\n",
      "by that way he come. It was a dreary blank that was before us. _Omne\n",
      "ships leave for the Black Sea last night. He was in sailing ship, since\n",
      "Madam Mina tell of sails being set. These not so important as to go in\n",
      "your list of the shipping in the _Times_, and so we go, by suggestion of\n",
      "Lord Godalming, to your Lloyd’s, where are note of all ships that sail,\n",
      "however so small. There we find that only one Black-Sea-bound ship go\n",
      "out with the tide. She is the _Czarina Catherine_, and she sail from\n",
      "Doolittle’s Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the\n",
      "Danube. ‘Soh!’ said I, ‘this is the ship whereon is the Count.’ So off\n",
      "we go to Doolittle’s Wharf, and there we find a man in an office of wood\n",
      "of the goings of the _Czarina Catherine_. He swear much, and he red face\n",
      "and loud of voice, but he good fellow all the same; and when Quincey\n",
      "“They make known to us among them, how last afternoon at about five\n",
      "sails for the Black Sea and for where. Some took him to the office and\n",
      "him that he doesn’t want no Frenchmen--with bloom upon them and also\n",
      "“No one knew where he went ‘or bloomin’ well cared,’ as they said, for\n",
      "became apparent to all that the _Czarina Catherine_ would not sail as\n",
      "The captain swore polyglot--very polyglot--polyglot with bloom and\n",
      "Indeed they thought not of him; for soon the fog begin to melt away, and\n",
      "“And so, my dear Madam Mina, it is that we have to rest for a time, for\n",
      "Danube mouth. To sail a ship takes time, go she never so quick; and when\n",
      "Varna, and to be given to an agent, one Ristics who will there present\n",
      "When he ask if there be any wrong, for that so, he can telegraph and\n",
      "have inquiry made at Varna, we say ‘no’; for what is to be done is not\n",
      "When Dr. Van Helsing had done speaking, I asked him if he were certain\n",
      "that the Count had remained on board the ship. He replied: “We have the\n",
      "pursue the Count, for oh! I dread Jonathan leaving me, and I know that\n",
      "“Yes, it is necessary--necessary--necessary! For your sake in the first,\n",
      "dear Madam Mina, will learn it in the phonograph of my friend John, or\n",
      "work of centuries. Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do\n",
      "some wondrous way. The very place, where he have been alive, Un-Dead for\n",
      "There have been volcanoes, some of whose openings still send out waters\n",
      "so in time, death, which is of man’s common lot and with God’s sanction,\n",
      "shall make you like to him. This must not be! We have sworn together\n",
      "that it must not. Thus are we ministers of God’s own wish: that the\n",
      "world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters,\n",
      "whose very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem one\n",
      "soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem\n",
      "we fall, we fall in good cause.” He paused and I said:--\n",
      "“But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely? Since he has been driven\n",
      "from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from\n",
      "“Aha!” he said, “your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall\n",
      "adopt him. Your man-eater, as they of India call the tiger who has once\n",
      "over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground; he be\n",
      "beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again.\n",
      "Look at his persistence and endurance. With the child-brain that was to\n",
      "does he do? He find out the place of all the world most of promise for\n",
      "peoples. Oh, if such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil,\n",
      "honour and glory of God.”\n",
      "After a general discussion it was determined that for to-night nothing\n",
      "My surmise was not finished, could not be; for I caught sight in the\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_5 October._--We all rose early, and I think that sleep did much for\n",
      "It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let\n",
      "caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker’s forehead that I was\n",
      "trouble is still existent. Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her\n",
      "that in some mysterious way poor Mrs. Harker’s tongue is tied. I _know_\n",
      "cannot, give them utterance. I have mentioned this to Van Helsing, and\n",
      "Count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called “the\n",
      "Vampire’s baptism of blood.” Well, there may be a poison that distils\n",
      "a mystery we should not wonder at anything! One thing I know: that if my\n",
      "instinct be true regarding poor Mrs. Harker’s silences, then there is a\n",
      "Van Helsing is coming to my study a little before the others. I shall\n",
      "_Later._--When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of\n",
      "“Friend John, there is something that you and I must talk of alone, just\n",
      "“Madam Mina, our poor, dear Madam Mina is changing.” A cold shiver ran\n",
      "through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed. Van Helsing\n",
      "“With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned\n",
      "often; as so it was with Miss Lucy. She did not speak, even when she\n",
      "it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and\n",
      "“Then, what we must do is to prevent this; we must keep her ignorant of\n",
      "task! Oh, so painful that it heart-break me to think of; but it must be.\n",
      "When to-day we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not\n",
      "us.” He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration\n",
      "It is now close to the time of our general gathering. Van Helsing has\n",
      "_Later._--At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was\n",
      "experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Mrs. Harker had sent a\n",
      "without her presence to embarrass us. The Professor and I looked at each\n",
      "part, I thought that if Mrs. Harker realised the danger herself, it was\n",
      "confer alone again. We went at once into our Plan of Campaign. Van\n",
      "Helsing roughly put the facts before us first:--\n",
      "“The _Czarina Catherine_ left the Thames yesterday morning. It will take\n",
      "reach Varna; but we can travel overland to the same place in three days.\n",
      "Now, if we allow for two days less for the ship’s voyage, owing to such\n",
      "weather influences as we know that the Count can bring to bear; and if\n",
      "be in Varna a day before the ship arrives, and able to make such\n",
      "against evil things, spiritual as well as physical.” Here Quincey Morris\n",
      "“I understand that the Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be\n",
      "that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to\n",
      "our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any\n",
      "trouble of that sort around. Do you remember, Art, when we had the pack\n",
      "after us at Tobolsk? What wouldn’t we have given then for a repeater\n",
      "“Good!” said Van Helsing, “Winchesters it shall be. Quincey’s head is\n",
      "can do nothing here; and as I think that Varna is not familiar to any of\n",
      "us, why not go there more soon? It is as long to wait here as there.\n",
      "To-night and to-morrow we can get ready, and then, if all be well, we\n",
      "“We four?” said Harker interrogatively, looking from one to another of\n",
      "“Of course!” answered the Professor quickly, “you must remain to take\n",
      "care of your so sweet wife!” Harker was silent for awhile and then said\n",
      "“Let us talk of that part of it in the morning. I want to consult with\n",
      "Mina.” I thought that now was the time for Van Helsing to warn him not\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_5 October, afternoon._--For some time after our meeting this morning I\n",
      "with happiness. Thank God, there are such moments still for her.\n",
      "_Later._--How strange it all is. I sat watching Mina’s happy sleep, and\n",
      "once Mina opened her eyes, and looking at me tenderly, said:--\n",
      "“Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A\n",
      "promise made to me, but made holily in God’s hearing, and not to be\n",
      "“Mina,” I said, “a promise like that, I cannot make at once. I may have\n",
      "“But, dear one,” she said, with such spiritual intensity that her eyes\n",
      "You can ask Dr. Van Helsing if I am not right; if he disagrees you may\n",
      "She said:--\n",
      "“Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for\n",
      "the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or\n",
      "_Later, midnight._--Mina has been bright and cheerful all the evening.\n",
      "So much so that all the rest seemed to take courage, as if infected\n",
      "trouble. Thank God for it, for then at least she can forget her care.\n",
      "Perhaps her example may affect me as her gaiety did to-night. I shall\n",
      "_6 October, morning._--Another surprise. Mina woke me early, about the\n",
      "same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. Van Helsing. I thought\n",
      "for the Professor. He had evidently expected some such call, for I found\n",
      "room, he asked Mina if the others might come, too.\n",
      "“No,” she said quite simply, “it will not be necessary. You can tell\n",
      "Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a moment’s pause he\n",
      "“But why?”\n",
      "“You must take me with you. I am safer with you, and you shall be safer,\n",
      "“But why, dear Madam Mina? You know that your safety is our solemnest\n",
      "any of us from--from circumstances--things that have been.” He paused,\n",
      "As she replied, she raised her finger and pointed to her forehead:--\n",
      "coming up; I may not be able again. I know that when the Count wills me\n",
      "wile; by any device to hoodwink--even Jonathan.” God saw the look that\n",
      "she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording Angel\n",
      "“You men are brave and strong. You are strong in your numbers, for you\n",
      "and so learn that which even I myself do not know.” Dr. Van Helsing said\n",
      "“Madam Mina, you are, as always, most wise. You shall with us come; and\n",
      "together we shall do that which we go forth to achieve.” When he had\n",
      "spoken, Mina’s long spell of silence made me look at her. She had fallen\n",
      "the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the room. Van Helsing\n",
      "a minute Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr. Morris were with us also.\n",
      "He told them what Mina had said, and went on:--\n",
      "“In the morning we shall leave for Varna. We have now to deal with a\n",
      "new factor: Madam Mina. Oh, but her soul is true. It is to her an agony\n",
      "warned in time. There must be no chance lost, and in Varna we must be\n",
      "“What shall we do exactly?” asked Mr. Morris laconically. The Professor\n",
      "“We shall at the first board that ship; then, when we have identified\n",
      "“I shall not wait for any opportunity,” said Morris. “When I see the box\n",
      "“Good boy,” said Dr. Van Helsing. “Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God\n",
      "There was nothing further to be said, and we parted. I shall now settle\n",
      "_Later._--It is all done; my will is made, and all complete. Mina if she\n",
      "It is now drawing towards the sunset; Mina’s uneasiness calls my\n",
      "danger--some new pain, which, however, may in God’s will be means to a\n",
      "She is calling to me.\n",
      "CHAPTER XXV\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY\n",
      "_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\n",
      "I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\n",
      "Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to\n",
      "To-night, when we met, she was somewhat constrained, and bore all the\n",
      "“We are all here together in freedom, for perhaps the last time! I know,\n",
      "dear; I know that you will always be with me to the end.” This was to\n",
      "her husband whose hand had, as we could see, tightened upon hers. “In\n",
      "the morning we go out upon our task, and God alone knows what may be in\n",
      "There is a poison in my blood, in my soul, which may destroy me; which\n",
      "is one way out for me, you must not and I must not take it!” She looked\n",
      "“What is that way?” asked Van Helsing in a hoarse voice. “What is that\n",
      "“That I may die now, either by my own hand or that of another, before\n",
      "did my poor Lucy’s. Were death, or the fear of death, the only thing\n",
      "done, is God’s will. Therefore, I, on my part, give up here the\n",
      "blackest things that the world or the nether world holds!” We were all\n",
      "faces of the others were set and Harker’s grew ashen grey; perhaps he\n",
      "“This is what I can give into the hotch-pot.” I could not but note the\n",
      "seriousness. “What will each of you give? Your lives I know,” she went\n",
      "on quickly, “that is easy for brave men. Your lives are God’s, and you\n",
      "can give them back to Him; but what will you give to me?” She looked\n",
      "seemed to understand; he nodded, and her face lit up. “Then I shall tell\n",
      "“What is that time?” The voice was Quincey’s, but it was low and\n",
      "“When you shall be convinced that I am so changed that it is better that\n",
      "Quincey was the first to rise after the pause. He knelt down before her\n",
      "“My true friend!” was all she could say amid her fast-falling tears, as,\n",
      "“I swear the same, my dear Madam Mina!” said Van Helsing.\n",
      "“And I!” said Lord Godalming, each of them in turn kneeling to her to\n",
      "“And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?”\n",
      "“You too, my dearest,” she said, with infinite yearning of pity in her\n",
      "voice and eyes. “You must not shrink. You are nearest and dearest and\n",
      "towards those whom they love, in such times of sore trial! And oh, my\n",
      "the hand of him that loves me best. Dr. Van Helsing, I have not\n",
      "forgotten your mercy in poor Lucy’s case to him who loved”--she stopped\n",
      "“Again I swear!” came the Professor’s resonant voice. Mrs. Harker\n",
      "“And now one word of warning, a warning which you must never forget:\n",
      "“One more request;” she became very solemn as she said this, “it is not\n",
      "me, if you will.” We all acquiesced, but no one spoke; there was no need\n",
      "“I want you to read the Burial Service.” She was interrupted by a deep\n",
      "heart, and continued: “You must read it over me some day. Whatever may\n",
      "“But oh, my dear one,” he pleaded, “death is afar off from you.”\n",
      "“Nay,” she said, holding up a warning hand. “I am deeper in death at\n",
      "“Oh, my wife, must I read it?” he said, before he began.\n",
      "“It would comfort me, my husband!” was all she said; and he began to\n",
      "“How can I--how could any one--tell of that strange scene, its\n",
      "had to pause, he read the simple and beautiful service from the Burial\n",
      "of the Dead. I--I cannot go on--words--and--v-voice--f-fail m-me!”\n",
      "She was right in her instinct. Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may\n",
      "comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker’s coming\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_15 October, Varna._--We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th,\n",
      "got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the\n",
      "Orient Express. We travelled night and day, arriving here at about five\n",
      "o’clock. Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any telegram had\n",
      "Odessus.” The journey may have had incidents; I was, however, too eager\n",
      "to get on, to care for them. Until the _Czarina Catherine_ comes into\n",
      "Thank God! Mina is well, and looks to be getting stronger; her colour is\n",
      "wakeful and alert; and it has become a habit for Van Helsing to\n",
      "“Nothing; all is dark.” And to the second:--\n",
      "It is evident that the _Czarina Catherine_ is still at sea, hastening on\n",
      "her way to Varna. Lord Godalming has just returned. He had four\n",
      "that the _Czarina Catherine_ had not been reported to Lloyd’s from\n",
      "anywhere. He had arranged before leaving London that his agent should\n",
      "We had dinner and went to bed early. To-morrow we are to see the\n",
      "Vice-Consul, and to arrange, if we can, about getting on board the ship\n",
      "as soon as she arrives. Van Helsing says that our chance will be to get\n",
      "on the boat between sunrise and sunset. The Count, even if he takes the\n",
      "for we can open the box and make sure of him, as we did of poor Lucy,\n",
      "seamen. Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything,\n",
      "warned, and we shall be safe. Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I\n",
      "_16 October._--Mina’s report still the same: lapping waves and rushing\n",
      "when we hear of the _Czarina Catherine_ we shall be ready. As she must\n",
      "pass the Dardanelles we are sure to have some report.\n",
      "_17 October._--Everything is pretty well fixed now, I think, to welcome\n",
      "the Count on his return from his tour. Godalming told the shippers that\n",
      "risk. The owner gave him a paper telling the Captain to give him every\n",
      "similar authorisation to his agent at Varna. We have seen the agent, who\n",
      "was much impressed with Godalming’s kindly manner to him, and we are all\n",
      "Count is there, Van Helsing and Seward will cut off his head at once and\n",
      "drive a stake through his heart. Morris and Godalming and I shall\n",
      "have ready. The Professor says that if we can so treat the Count’s body,\n",
      "_Czarina Catherine_ is seen, we are to be informed by a special\n",
      "_24 October._--A whole week of waiting. Daily telegrams to Godalming,\n",
      "but only the same story: “Not yet reported.” Mina’s morning and evening\n",
      "_Telegram, October 24th._\n",
      "_Rufus Smith, Lloyd’s, London, to Lord Godalming, care of H. B. M.\n",
      "Vice-Consul, Varna._\n",
      "“_Czarina Catherine_ reported this morning from Dardanelles.”\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_25 October._--How I miss my phonograph! To write diary with a pen is\n",
      "irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must. We were all wild with\n",
      "excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram from Lloyd’s. I\n",
      "Harker, alone of our party, did not show any signs of emotion. After\n",
      "getting back some of her colour, Van Helsing and I are not satisfied. We\n",
      "would break poor Harker’s heart--certainly his nerve--if he knew that we\n",
      "had even a suspicion on the subject. Van Helsing examines, he tells me,\n",
      "“Euthanasia” is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to\n",
      "It is only about 24 hours’ sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the\n",
      "rate the _Czarina Catherine_ has come from London. She should therefore\n",
      "_25 October, Noon_.--No news yet of the ship’s arrival. Mrs. Harker’s\n",
      "excitement, except Harker, who is calm; his hands are cold as ice, and\n",
      "an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife\n",
      "Count if the edge of that “Kukri” ever touches his throat, driven by\n",
      "Van Helsing and I were a little alarmed about Mrs. Harker to-day. About\n",
      "_Later._--Our opinion was justified, for when after a refreshing sleep\n",
      "may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to his destination. To\n",
      "_26 October._--Another day and no tidings of the _Czarina Catherine_.\n",
      "She ought to be here by now. That she is still journeying _somewhere_ is\n",
      "apparent, for Mrs. Harker’s hypnotic report at sunrise was still the\n",
      "_27 October, Noon._--Most strange; no news yet of the ship we wait for.\n",
      "Mrs. Harker reported last night and this morning as usual: “lapping\n",
      "faint.” The telegrams from London have been the same: “no further\n",
      "report.” Van Helsing is terribly anxious, and told me just now that he\n",
      "fears the Count is escaping us. He added significantly:--\n",
      "“I did not like that lethargy of Madam Mina’s. Souls and memories can do\n",
      "strange things during trance.” I was about to ask him more, but Harker\n",
      "_28 October._--Telegram. _Rufus Smith, London, to Lord Godalming,\n",
      "care H. B. M. Vice Consul, Varna._\n",
      "“_Czarina Catherine_ reported entering Galatz at one o’clock\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_28 October._--When the telegram came announcing the arrival in Galatz I\n",
      "The delay of arrival at Varna made us individually satisfied that things\n",
      "took it differently. Van Helsing raised his hand over his head for a\n",
      "moment, as though in remonstrance with the Almighty; but he said not a\n",
      "Godalming grew very pale, and sat breathing heavily. I was myself half\n",
      "stunned and looked in wonder at one after another. Quincey Morris\n",
      "old wandering days it meant “action.” Mrs. Harker grew ghastly white, so\n",
      "the great Kukri knife and rested there. “When does the next train start\n",
      "for Galatz?” said Van Helsing to us generally.\n",
      "“At 6:30 to-morrow morning!” We all started, for the answer came from\n",
      "Mrs. Harker.\n",
      "“How on earth do you know?” said Art.\n",
      "“You forget--or perhaps you do not know, though Jonathan does and so\n",
      "does Dr. Van Helsing--that I am the train fiend. At home in Exeter I\n",
      "the time-tables now. I knew that if anything were to take us to Castle\n",
      "Dracula we should go by Galatz, or at any rate through Bucharest, so I\n",
      "“Wonderful woman!” murmured the Professor.\n",
      "“Can’t we get a special?” asked Lord Godalming. Van Helsing shook his\n",
      "Now let us organize. You, friend Arthur, go to the train and get the\n",
      "you, friend Jonathan, go to the agent of the ship and get from him\n",
      "letters to the agent in Galatz, with authority to make search the ship\n",
      "just as it was here. Morris Quincey, you see the Vice-Consul, and get\n",
      "his aid with his fellow in Galatz and all he can do to make our way\n",
      "smooth, so that no times be lost when over the Danube. John will stay\n",
      "with Madam Mina and me, and we shall consult. For so if time be long you\n",
      "with Madam to make report.”\n",
      "“And I,” said Mrs. Harker brightly, and more like her old self than she\n",
      "The three younger men looked happier at the moment as they seemed to\n",
      "realise the significance of her words; but Van Helsing and I, turning to\n",
      "When the three men had gone out to their tasks Van Helsing asked Mrs.\n",
      "Harker to look up the copy of the diaries and find him the part of\n",
      "Harker’s journal at the Castle. She went away to get it; when the door\n",
      "“We mean the same! speak out!”\n",
      "“There is some change. It is a hope that makes me sick, for it may\n",
      "“Quite so. Do you know why I asked her to get the manuscript?”\n",
      "“No!” said I, “unless it was to get an opportunity of seeing me alone.”\n",
      "“You are in part right, friend John, but only in part. I want to tell\n",
      "but I believe it is right. In the moment when Madam Mina said those\n",
      "the trance of three days ago the Count sent her his spirit to read her\n",
      "Now he make his most effort to escape us. At present he want her not.\n",
      "“He is sure with his so great knowledge that she will come at his call;\n",
      "have been of man so long and that have not lost the grace of God, will\n",
      "therefore small. Here comes Madam Mina; not a word to her of her trance!\n",
      "She know it not; and it would overwhelm her and make despair just when\n",
      "a special power which the Count give her, and which he may not take away\n",
      "learn. Oh, John, my friend, we are in awful straits. I fear, as I never\n",
      "feared before. We can only trust the good God. Silence! here she comes!”\n",
      "I thought that the Professor was going to break down and have hysterics,\n",
      "just as he had when Lucy died, but with a great effort he controlled\n",
      "himself and was at perfect nervous poise when Mrs. Harker tripped into\n",
      "of typewriting to Van Helsing. He looked over them gravely, his face\n",
      "“Friend John, to you with so much of experience already--and you, too,\n",
      "dear Madam Mina, that are young--here is a lesson: do not fear ever to\n",
      "strong to use his little wings. Nay, like the “Ugly Duck” of my friend\n",
      "Hans Andersen, he be no duck-thought at all, but a big swan-thought that\n",
      "read here what Jonathan have written:--\n",
      "“That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again, brought\n",
      "his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land; who, when he was\n",
      "“What does this tell us? Not much? no! The Count’s child-thought see\n",
      "man-thought see nothing, till just now. No! But there comes another word\n",
      "leagues. Is it not so? Well, I shall explain. To begin, have you ever\n",
      "study the philosophy of crime? ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ You, John, yes; for it is\n",
      "a study of insanity. You, no, Madam Mina; for crime touch you not--not\n",
      "This criminal has not full man-brain. He is clever and cunning and\n",
      "him the ground to start from to do more. ‘_Dos pou sto_,’ said\n",
      "Archimedes. ‘Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world!’ To do once,\n",
      "just as he have done before! Oh, my dear, I see that your eyes are\n",
      "Mrs. Harker began to clap her hands and her eyes sparkled. He went on:--\n",
      "“Now you shall speak. Tell us two dry men of science what you see with\n",
      "those so bright eyes.” He took her hand and held it whilst she spoke.\n",
      "His finger and thumb closed on her pulse, as I thought instinctively and\n",
      "“The Count is a criminal and of criminal type. Nordau and Lombroso would\n",
      "Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit. His past is a\n",
      "lips--tells that once before, when in what Mr. Morris would call a\n",
      "So he came to London to invade a new land. He was beaten, and when all\n",
      "the sea to his home; just as formerly he had fled back over the Danube\n",
      "from Turkey Land.”\n",
      "“Good, good! oh, you so clever lady!” said Van Helsing,\n",
      "“Seventy-two only; and in all this excitement. I have hope.” Turning to\n",
      "“But go on. Go on! there is more to tell if you will. Be not afraid;\n",
      "John and I know. I do in any case, and shall tell you if you are right.\n",
      "Speak, without fear!”\n",
      "“Nay! fear not, you must be egotist, for it is of you that we think.”\n",
      "“Then, as he is criminal he is selfish; and as his intellect is small\n",
      "purpose. That purpose is remorseless. As he fled back over the Danube,\n",
      "night. I felt it! Oh, I felt it! Thank God, for His great mercy! My soul\n",
      "his ends.” The Professor stood up:--\n",
      "“He has so used your mind; and by it he has left us here in Varna,\n",
      "Galatz, where, doubtless, he had made preparation for escaping from us.\n",
      "But his child-mind only saw so far; and it may be that, as ever is in\n",
      "God’s Providence, the very thing that the evil-doer most reckoned on for\n",
      "in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says. For now that he think he\n",
      "there can be no knowledge of him to you; there is where he fail! That\n",
      "that God is with us through all this blackness, and these many dark\n",
      "ourselves that we become like him. Friend John, this has been a great\n",
      "And so I have written it whilst we wait their return, and Mrs. Harker\n",
      "has written with her typewriter all since she brought the MS. to us.\n",
      "CHAPTER XXVI\n",
      "DR. SEWARD’S DIARY\n",
      "_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last\n",
      "for our work when we get to Galatz. When the usual time came round Mrs.\n",
      "Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort; and after a longer and\n",
      "more serious effort on the part of Van Helsing than has been usually\n",
      "this time the Professor had to ask her questions, and to ask them pretty\n",
      "There is tramping of feet overhead, and ropes and chains are dragged\n",
      "along. What is this? There is a gleam of light; I can feel the air\n",
      "Here she stopped. She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she lay\n",
      "weight. Van Helsing and I looked at each other with understanding.\n",
      "Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her intently, whilst\n",
      "Harker’s hand instinctively closed round the hilt of his Kukri. There\n",
      "“Would none of you like a cup of tea? You must all be so tired!” We\n",
      "tea; when she had gone Van Helsing said:--\n",
      "“You see, my friends. _He_ is close to land: he has left his\n",
      "at Whitby. But if the day come before he get on shore, then, unless he\n",
      "We may then arrive in time; for if he escape not at night we shall come\n",
      "There was no more to be said, so we waited in patience until the dawn;\n",
      "at which time we might learn more from Mrs. Harker.\n",
      "Early this morning we listened, with breathless anxiety, for her\n",
      "so short that we began to despair. Van Helsing seemed to throw his whole\n",
      "“All is dark. I hear lapping water, level with me, and some creaking as\n",
      "of wood on wood.” She paused, and the red sun shot up. We must wait till\n",
      "And so it is that we are travelling towards Galatz in an agony of\n",
      "but already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we cannot\n",
      "hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker; either or both may possibly throw\n",
      "_Later._--Sunset has come and gone. Fortunately it came at a time when\n",
      "Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than\n",
      "this morning. I am in fear that her power of reading the Count’s\n",
      "on it may ultimately mislead us. If I thought that the Count’s power\n",
      "“Something is going out; I can feel it pass me like a cold wind. I can\n",
      "fierce-falling water, and the howling of wolves.” She stopped and a\n",
      "in answer to the Professor’s imperative questioning. When she woke from\n",
      "_30 October, 7 a. m._--We are near Galatz now, and I may not have time\n",
      "Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance,\n",
      "Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual. They produced no\n",
      "greater difficulty, only a minute before the sun rose. The Professor\n",
      "“All is dark. I hear water swirling by, level with my ears, and the\n",
      "queer one like----” She stopped and grew white, and whiter still.\n",
      "“Go on; go on! Speak, I command you!” said Van Helsing in an agonised\n",
      "was reddening even Mrs. Harker’s pale face. She opened her eyes, and we\n",
      "“Oh, Professor, why ask me to do what you know I can’t? I don’t remember\n",
      "anything.” Then, seeing the look of amazement on our faces, she said,\n",
      "“What have I said? What have I done? I know nothing, only that I was\n",
      "It seemed so funny to hear you order me about, as if I were a bad\n",
      "“Oh, Madam Mina,” he said, sadly, “it is proof, if proof be needed, of\n",
      "The whistles are sounding; we are nearing Galatz. We are on fire with\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_30 October._--Mr. Morris took me to the hotel where our rooms had been\n",
      "much as they had been at Varna, except that Lord Godalming went to the\n",
      "Vice-Consul, as his rank might serve as an immediate guarantee of some\n",
      "of the _Czarina Catherine_.\n",
      "_Later._--Lord Godalming has returned. The Consul is away, and the\n",
      "Vice-Consul sick; so the routine work has been attended to by a clerk.\n",
      "He was very obliging, and offered to do anything in his power.\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_30 October._--At nine o’clock Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and I called\n",
      "on Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff, the agents of the London firm of\n",
      "Hapgood. They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord\n",
      "Godalming’s telegraphed request, asking us to show them any civility in\n",
      "on board the _Czarina Catherine_, which lay at anchor out in the river\n",
      "harbour. There we saw the Captain, Donelson by name, who told us of his\n",
      "“Man!” he said, “but it made us afeard, for we expeckit that we should\n",
      "average. It’s no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi’ a wind\n",
      "ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin’ on yer sail for his\n",
      "we see. We ran by Gibraltar wi’oot bein’ able to signal; an’ till we\n",
      "came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we\n",
      "Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it\n",
      "miscredit wi’ the owners, or no hurt to our traffic; an’ the Old Mon who\n",
      "hinderin’ him.” This mixture of simplicity and cunning, of superstition\n",
      "and commercial reasoning, aroused Van Helsing, who said:--\n",
      "“Mine friend, that Devil is more clever than he is thought by some; and\n",
      "he know when he meet his match!” The skipper was not displeased with the\n",
      "“When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble; some o’ them,\n",
      "the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had\n",
      "frae London. I had seen them speer at the fellow, and put out their twa\n",
      "five days I joost let the wind carry us; for if the Deil wanted to get\n",
      "through the fog, we found ourselves just in the river opposite Galatz.\n",
      "The Roumanians were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take out the\n",
      "river Danube. They had, mind ye, taken the box on the deck ready to\n",
      "fling in, and as it was marked Galatz _via_ Varna, I thocht I’d let it\n",
      "aboard wi’ an order, written to him from England, to receive a box\n",
      "marked for one Count Dracula. Sure eneuch the matter was one ready to\n",
      "dam’ thing, for I was beginnin’ masel’ to feel uneasy at it. If the Deil\n",
      "“What was the name of the man who took it?” asked Dr. Van Helsing with\n",
      "cabin, produced a receipt signed “Immanuel Hildesheim.” Burgen-strasse\n",
      "16 was the address. We found out that this was all the Captain knew; so\n",
      "We found Hildesheim in his office, a Hebrew of rather the Adelphi\n",
      "Theatre type, with a nose like a sheep, and a fez. His arguments were\n",
      "important. He had received a letter from Mr. de Ville of London, telling\n",
      "which would arrive at Galatz in the _Czarina Catherine_. This he was to\n",
      "give in charge to a certain Petrof Skinsky, who dealt with the Slovaks\n",
      "an English bank note, which had been duly cashed for gold at the Danube\n",
      "International Bank. When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to\n",
      "We then sought for Skinsky, but were unable to find him. One of his\n",
      "together with the rent due, in English money. This had been between ten\n",
      "Whilst we were talking one came running and breathlessly gasped out that\n",
      "the body of Skinsky had been found inside the wall of the churchyard of\n",
      "St. Peter, and that the throat had been torn open as if by some wild\n",
      "women crying out “This is the work of a Slovak!” We hurried away lest we\n",
      "As we came home we could arrive at no definite conclusion. We were all\n",
      "to the hotel to Mina.\n",
      "When we met together, the first thing was to consult as to taking Mina\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_30 October, evening._--They were so tired and worn out and dispirited\n",
      "“Traveller’s” typewriter, and to Mr. Morris for getting this one for\n",
      "It is all done; poor dear, dear Jonathan, what he must have suffered,\n",
      "I have asked Dr. Van Helsing, and he has got me all the papers that I\n",
      "follow the Professor’s example, and think without prejudice on the facts\n",
      "I do believe that under God’s providence I have made a discovery. I\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Memorandum._\n",
      "(Entered in her Journal.)\n",
      "_Ground of inquiry._--Count Dracula’s problem is to get back to his own\n",
      "(_a_) He must be _brought back_ by some one. This is evident; for had he\n",
      "(_b_) _How is he to be taken?_--Here a process of exclusions may help\n",
      "1. _By Road._--There are endless difficulties, especially in leaving the\n",
      "(_x_) There are people; and people are curious, and investigate. A hint,\n",
      "(_y_) There are, or there may be, customs and octroi officers to pass.\n",
      "(_z_) His pursuers might follow. This is his highest fear; and in order\n",
      "2. _By Rail._--There is no one in charge of the box. It would have to\n",
      "left in a strange place with no refuge that he could fly to? This is not\n",
      "3. _By Water._--Here is the safest way, in one respect, but with most\n",
      "We know from the record that he was on the water; so what we have to do\n",
      "The first thing is to realise exactly what he has done as yet; we may,\n",
      "_Firstly._--We must differentiate between what he did in London as part\n",
      "_Secondly_ we must see, as well as we can surmise it from the facts we\n",
      "As to the first, he evidently intended to arrive at Galatz, and sent\n",
      "invoice to Varna to deceive us lest we should ascertain his means of\n",
      "exit from England; his immediate and sole purpose then was to escape.\n",
      "The proof of this, is the letter of instructions sent to Immanuel\n",
      "Hildesheim to clear and take away the box _before sunrise_. There is\n",
      "also the instruction to Petrof Skinsky. These we must only guess at; but\n",
      "there must have been some letter or message, since Skinsky came to\n",
      "Hildesheim.\n",
      "That, so far, his plans were successful we know. The _Czarina Catherine_\n",
      "made a phenomenally quick journey--so much so that Captain Donelson’s\n",
      "played the Count’s game for him, and he ran with his favouring wind\n",
      "through fogs and all till he brought up blindfold at Galatz. That the\n",
      "Count’s arrangements were well made, has been proved. Hildesheim cleared\n",
      "the box, took it off, and gave it to Skinsky. Skinsky took it--and here\n",
      "Now we come to what the Count must have done after his arrival--_on\n",
      "land_, at Galatz.\n",
      "The box was given to Skinsky before sunrise. At sunrise the Count could\n",
      "appear in his own form. Here, we ask why Skinsky was chosen at all to\n",
      "aid in the work? In my husband’s diary, Skinsky is mentioned as dealing\n",
      "with the Slovaks who trade down the river to the port; and the man’s\n",
      "remark, that the murder was the work of a Slovak, showed the general\n",
      "feeling against his class. The Count wanted isolation.\n",
      "My surmise is, this: that in London the Count decided to get back to his\n",
      "the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks\n",
      "who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London.\n",
      "Thus the Count had knowledge of the persons who could arrange this\n",
      "came out from his box, met Skinsky and instructed him what to do as to\n",
      "Slovaks to have ascended is either the Pruth or the Sereth. I read in\n",
      "level with my ears and the creaking of wood. The Count in his box, then,\n",
      "Of course it may not be either the Sereth or the Pruth, but we may\n",
      "possibly investigate further. Now of these two, the Pruth is the more\n",
      "easily navigated, but the Sereth is, at Fundu, joined by the Bistritza\n",
      "which runs up round the Borgo Pass. The loop it makes is manifestly as\n",
      "close to Dracula’s castle as can be got by water.\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal--continued._\n",
      "When I had done reading, Jonathan took me in his arms and kissed me. The\n",
      "others kept shaking me by both hands, and Dr. Van Helsing said:--\n",
      "“Our dear Madam Mina is once more our teacher. Her eyes have been where\n",
      "to our Council of War; for, here and now, we must plan what each and all\n",
      "“I shall get a steam launch and follow him,” said Lord Godalming.\n",
      "“And I, horses to follow on the bank lest by chance he land,” said Mr.\n",
      "Morris.\n",
      "“Good!” said the Professor, “both good. But neither must go alone. There\n",
      "must be force to overcome force if need be; the Slovak is strong and\n",
      "rough, and he carries rude arms.” All the men smiled, for amongst them\n",
      "they carried a small arsenal. Said Mr. Morris:--\n",
      "“I have brought some Winchesters; they are pretty handy in a crowd, and\n",
      "there may be wolves. The Count, if you remember, took some other\n",
      "precautions; he made some requisitions on others that Mrs. Harker could\n",
      "not quite hear or understand. We must be ready at all points.” Dr.\n",
      "Seward said:--\n",
      "“I think I had better go with Quincey. We have been accustomed to hunt\n",
      "along. You must not be alone, Art. It may be necessary to fight the\n",
      "Slovaks, and a chance thrust--for I don’t suppose these fellows carry\n",
      "shall not rest until the Count’s head and body have been separated, and\n",
      "we are sure that he cannot re-incarnate.” He looked at Jonathan as he\n",
      "spoke, and Jonathan looked at me. I could see that the poor dear was\n",
      "the ... the ... Vampire. (Why did I hesitate to write the word?) He was\n",
      "silent awhile, and during his silence Dr. Van Helsing spoke:--\n",
      "“Friend Jonathan, this is to you for twice reasons. First, because you\n",
      "wrought such woe to you and yours. Be not afraid for Madam Mina; she\n",
      "me say that what I would is this: while you, my Lord Godalming and\n",
      "friend Jonathan go in your so swift little steamboat up the river, and\n",
      "whilst John and Quincey guard the bank where perchance he might be\n",
      "landed, I will take Madam Mina right into the heart of the enemy’s\n",
      "of his coffin-box lest his Slovak carriers should in fear leave him to\n",
      "perish--we shall go in the track where Jonathan went,--from Bistritz\n",
      "over the Borgo, and find our way to the Castle of Dracula. Here, Madam\n",
      "Mina’s hypnotic power will surely help, and we shall find our way--all\n",
      "made sanctify, so that that nest of vipers be obliterated.” Here\n",
      "Jonathan interrupted him hotly:--\n",
      "“Do you mean to say, Professor Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina,\n",
      "into the jaws of his death-trap? Not for the world! Not for Heaven or\n",
      "Hell!” He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on:--\n",
      "“Do you know what the place is? Have you seen that awful den of hellish\n",
      "Have you felt the Vampire’s lips upon your throat?” Here he turned to\n",
      "“Oh, my God, what have we done to have this terror upon us!” and he sank\n",
      "down on the sofa in a collapse of misery. The Professor’s voice, as he\n",
      "“Oh, my friend, it is because I would save Madam Mina from that awful\n",
      "see. We men here, all save Jonathan, have seen with their own eyes what\n",
      "terrible straits. If the Count escape us this time--and he is strong and\n",
      "company, and would be as those others that you, Jonathan, saw. You have\n",
      "clutched the moving bag that the Count threw to them. You shudder; and\n",
      "possibly my life? If it were that any one went into that place to stay,\n",
      "“Do as you will,” said Jonathan, with a sob that shook him all over, “we\n",
      "are in the hands of God!”\n",
      "_Later._--Oh, it did me good to see the way that these brave men worked.\n",
      "How can women help loving men when they are so earnest, and so true, and\n",
      "so brave! And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money!\n",
      "What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do\n",
      "when basely used. I felt so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich, and\n",
      "that both he and Mr. Morris, who also has plenty of money, are willing\n",
      "of us was to do; and now Lord Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely steam\n",
      "and Mr. Morris have half a dozen good horses, well appointed. We have\n",
      "Van Helsing and I are to leave by the 11:40 train to-night for Veresti,\n",
      "where we are to get a carriage to drive to the Borgo Pass. We are\n",
      "in the matter. The Professor knows something of a great many languages,\n",
      "large-bore revolver; Jonathan would not be happy unless I was armed like\n",
      "forehead forbids that. Dear Dr. Van Helsing comforts me by telling me\n",
      "_Later._--It took all my courage to say good-bye to my darling. We may\n",
      "never meet again. Courage, Mina! the Professor is looking at you keenly;\n",
      "God will let them fall in gladness.\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_October 30. Night._--I am writing this in the light from the furnace\n",
      "door of the steam launch: Lord Godalming is firing up. He is an\n",
      "own on the Thames, and another on the Norfolk Broads. Regarding our\n",
      "plans, we finally decided that Mina’s guess was correct, and that if any\n",
      "waterway was chosen for the Count’s escape back to his Castle, the\n",
      "Sereth and then the Bistritza at its junction, would be the one. We took\n",
      "Carpathians. We have no fear in running at good speed up the river at\n",
      "make steaming, even in the dark, easy enough. Lord Godalming tells me to\n",
      "comfort is that we are in the hands of God. Only for that faith it would\n",
      "Morris and Dr. Seward were off on their long ride before we started;\n",
      "can be easily adapted for Mina, if required.\n",
      "It is a wild adventure we are on. Here, as we are rushing along through\n",
      "_31 October._--Still hurrying along. The day has come, and Godalming is\n",
      "_1 November, evening._--No news all day; we have found nothing of the\n",
      "kind we seek. We have now passed into the Bistritza; and if we are wrong\n",
      "and little. Early this morning, one crew took us for a Government boat,\n",
      "so at Fundu, where the Bistritza runs into the Sereth, we got a\n",
      "Roumanian flag which we now fly conspicuously. With every boat which we\n",
      "to ask or do. Some of the Slovaks tell us that a big boat passed them,\n",
      "was before they came to Fundu, so they could not tell us whether the\n",
      "boat turned into the Bistritza or continued on up the Sereth. At Fundu\n",
      "dear Mina and me.\n",
      "_2 November, morning._--It is broad daylight. That good fellow would not\n",
      "me. I wonder where Mina is now, and Van Helsing. They should have got to\n",
      "Veresti about noon on Wednesday. It would take them some time to get the\n",
      "would be about now at the Borgo Pass. God guide and help them! I am\n",
      "Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris are getting on. There seem to be endless\n",
      "met much obstruction. I hope that before we get to Strasba we may see\n",
      "them; for if by that time we have not overtaken the Count, it may be\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_2 November._--Three days on the road. No news, and no time to write it\n",
      "Those adventurous days of ours are turning up useful. We must push on;\n",
      "_3 November._--We heard at Fundu that the launch had gone up the\n",
      "Bistritza. I wish it wasn’t so cold. There are signs of snow coming; and\n",
      "go on, Russian fashion.\n",
      "_4 November._--To-day we heard of the launch having been detained by an\n",
      "accident when trying to force a way up the rapids. The Slovak boats get\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_31 October._--Arrived at Veresti at noon. The Professor tells me that\n",
      "could say was: “dark and quiet.” He is off now buying a carriage and\n",
      "see it all. If Jonathan and I were driving through it alone what a\n",
      "people! But, alas!--\n",
      "_Later._--Dr. Van Helsing has returned. He has got the carriage and\n",
      "for a company of soldiers. The Professor encourages her, and whispers to\n",
      "We shall soon be off. I am afraid to think what may happen to us. We are\n",
      "truly in the hands of God. He alone knows what may be, and I pray Him,\n",
      "with all the strength of my sad and humble soul, that He will watch over\n",
      "my beloved husband; that whatever may happen, Jonathan may know that I\n",
      "CHAPTER XXVII\n",
      "MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL\n",
      "_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The\n",
      "think that the journey will be an easy one. Dr. Van Helsing is laconic;\n",
      "he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well\n",
      "Professor seems tireless; all day he would not take any rest, though he\n",
      "Jonathan, but somehow I have now no fear for him, or for myself. I write\n",
      "Van Helsing is sleeping. Poor dear, he looks very tired and old and\n",
      "_2 November, morning._--I was successful, and we took turns driving all\n",
      "us comfortable. At dawn Van Helsing hypnotised me; he says I answered\n",
      "danger--more than need be; but we are in God’s hands.\n",
      "_2 November, night._--All day long driving. The country gets wilder as\n",
      "we go, and the great spurs of the Carpathians, which at Veresti seemed\n",
      "Van Helsing says that by morning we shall reach the Borgo Pass. The\n",
      "houses are very few here now, and the Professor says that the last horse\n",
      "drive. We shall get to the Pass in daylight; we do not want to arrive\n",
      "will to-morrow bring to us? We go to seek the place where my poor\n",
      "that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both,\n",
      "and who are in such deadly peril. As for me, I am not worthy in His\n",
      "sight. Alas! I am unclean to His eyes, and shall be until He may deign\n",
      "to let me stand forth in His sight as one of those who have not incurred\n",
      "His wrath.\n",
      "_Memorandum by Abraham Van Helsing._\n",
      "_4 November._--This to my old and true friend John Seward, M.D., of\n",
      "Purfleet, London, in case I may not see him. It may explain. It is\n",
      "alive--Madam Mina aiding me. It is cold, cold; so cold that the grey\n",
      "affected Madam Mina; she has been so heavy of head all day that she was\n",
      "not like herself. She sleeps, and sleeps, and sleeps! She who is usual\n",
      "However, to-night she is more _vif_. Her long sleep all day have refresh\n",
      "God’s will be done--whatever it may be, and whithersoever it may lead!\n",
      "Now to the historical, for as Madam Mina write not in her stenography, I\n",
      "We got to the Borgo Pass just after sunrise yesterday morning. When I\n",
      "couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but\n",
      "before, came the answer: “darkness and the swirling of water.” Then she\n",
      "woke, bright and radiant and we go on our way and soon reach the Pass.\n",
      "At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal; some new\n",
      "“This is the way.”\n",
      "“How know you it?” I ask.\n",
      "“Of course I know it,” she answer, and with a pause, add: “Have not my\n",
      "Jonathan travelled it and wrote of his travel?”\n",
      "At first I think somewhat strange, but soon I see that there be only one\n",
      "road from the Bukovina to Bistritz, which is more wide and hard, and\n",
      "So we came down this road; when we meet other ways--not always were we\n",
      "they go on so patient. By-and-by we find all the things which Jonathan\n",
      "hours and hours. At the first, I tell Madam Mina to sleep; she try, and\n",
      "look down and find Madam Mina still sleep. It is now not far off sunset\n",
      "For we are going up, and up; and all is oh! so wild and rocky, as though\n",
      "Then I arouse Madam Mina. This time she wake with not much trouble, and\n",
      "Madam Mina laugh, and I turn and look at her. She is now quite awake,\n",
      "and look so well as I never saw her since that night at Carfax when we\n",
      "first enter the Count’s house. I am amaze, and not at ease then; but she\n",
      "_5 November, morning._--Let me be accurate in everything, for though you\n",
      "that I, Van Helsing, am mad--that the many horrors and the so long\n",
      "All yesterday we travel, ever getting closer to the mountains, and\n",
      "frowning precipices and much falling water, and Nature seem to have held\n",
      "sometime her carnival. Madam Mina still sleep and sleep; and though I\n",
      "she is with that Vampire baptism. “Well,” said I to myself, “if it be\n",
      "night.” As we travel on the rough road, for a road of an ancient and\n",
      "with a sense of guilt and of time passed, and found Madam Mina still\n",
      "steep-rising hill, on summit of which was such a castle as Jonathan tell\n",
      "I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotise her; but alas!\n",
      "Madam Mina, now awake and more charming than ever, sit comfortable amid\n",
      "where Madam Mina sat; and over the ring I passed some of the wafer, and\n",
      "“Will you not come over to the fire?” for I wished to make a test of\n",
      "“Why not go on?” I asked. She shook her head, and, coming back, sat\n",
      "Presently the horses began to scream, and tore at their tethers till I\n",
      "all the terrible anxiety. It was as though my memories of all Jonathan’s\n",
      "feared for my dear Madam Mina when these weird figures drew near and\n",
      "“No! No! Do not go without. Here you are safe!” I turned to her, and\n",
      "“But you? It is for you that I fear!” whereat she laughed--a laugh, low\n",
      "“Fear for _me_! Why fear for me? None safer in all the world from them\n",
      "Then, alas! I knew. Did I not, I would soon have learned, for the\n",
      "the Holy circle. Then they began to materialise till--if God have not\n",
      "in actual flesh the same three women that Jonathan saw in the room, when\n",
      "lips. They smiled ever at poor dear Madam Mina; and as their laugh came\n",
      "her, and said in those so sweet tingling tones that Jonathan said were\n",
      "“Come, sister. Come to us. Come! Come!” In fear I turned to my poor\n",
      "Madam Mina, and my heart with gladness leapt like flame; for oh! the\n",
      "Wafer, advanced on them towards the fire. They drew back before me, and\n",
      "approach, me, whilst so armed, nor Madam Mina whilst she remained within\n",
      "And so we remained till the red of the dawn to fall through the\n",
      "At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the\n",
      "Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending\n",
      "work. Madam Mina still sleeps; and, God be thanked! she is calm in her\n",
      "_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_4 November, evening._--The accident to the launch has been a terrible\n",
      "and by now my dear Mina would have been free. I fear to think of her,\n",
      "follow on the track. I note this whilst Godalming is getting ready. We\n",
      "have our arms. The Szgany must look out if they mean fight. Oh, if only\n",
      "Morris and Seward were with us. We must only hope! If I write no more\n",
      "Good-bye, Mina! God bless and keep you.\n",
      "_Dr. Seward’s Diary._\n",
      "_5 November._--With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing\n",
      "_Dr. Van Helsing’s Memorandum._\n",
      "_5 November, afternoon._--I am at least sane. Thank God for that mercy\n",
      "Madam Mina sleeping within the Holy circle, I took my way to the castle.\n",
      "The blacksmith hammer which I took in the carriage from Veresti was\n",
      "Then I bethought me of my dear Madam Mina, and I was in terrible plight.\n",
      "The dilemma had me between his horns.\n",
      "Her, I had not dare to take into this place, but left safe from the\n",
      "Vampire in that Holy circle; and yet even there would be the wolf! I\n",
      "submit, if it were God’s will. At any rate it was only death and\n",
      "the grave of the Vampire! So I make my choice to go on with my work.\n",
      "Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as\n",
      "wanton Un-Dead have hypnotise him; and he remain on and on, till sunset\n",
      "come, and the Vampire sleep be over. Then the beautiful eyes of the fair\n",
      "kiss--and man is weak. And there remain one more victim in the Vampire\n",
      "fold; one more to swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Un-Dead!...\n",
      "There is some fascination, surely, when I am moved by the mere presence\n",
      "as the lairs of the Count have had. Yes, I was moved--I, Van Helsing,\n",
      "of a clarion. For it was the voice of my dear Madam Mina that I heard.\n",
      "Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching\n",
      "which, like Jonathan I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of\n",
      "with new emotion. But God be thanked, that soul-wail of my dear Madam\n",
      "Mina had not died out of my ears; and, before the spell could be wrought\n",
      "there had been only three of these Un-Dead phantoms around us in the\n",
      "night, I took it that there were no more of active Un-Dead existent.\n",
      "There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and\n",
      "DRACULA.\n",
      "This then was the Un-Dead home of the King-Vampire, to whom so many more\n",
      "Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my\n",
      "awful work, I laid in Dracula’s tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished\n",
      "him from it, Un-Dead, for ever.\n",
      "Then began my terrible task, and I dreaded it. Had it been but one, it\n",
      "had been easy, comparative. But three! To begin twice more after I had\n",
      "Miss Lucy, what would it not be with these strange ones who had survived\n",
      "Oh, my friend John, but it was butcher work; had I not been nerved by\n",
      "till all was over, God be thanked, my nerve did stand. Had I not seen\n",
      "left my work undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can pity them\n",
      "for a short moment ere fading. For, friend John, hardly had my knife\n",
      "Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can\n",
      "the Count enter there Un-Dead.\n",
      "When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her\n",
      "“Come!” she said, “come away from this awful place! Let us go to meet my\n",
      "husband who is, I know, coming towards us.” She was looking thin and\n",
      "And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go eastward to meet\n",
      "our friends--and _him_--whom Madam Mina tell me that she _know_ are\n",
      "_Mina Harker’s Journal._\n",
      "_6 November._--It was late in the afternoon when the Professor and I\n",
      "took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming. We did\n",
      "clear line of Dracula’s castle cut the sky; for we were so deep under\n",
      "Carpathian mountains was far below it. We saw it in all its grandeur,\n",
      "full of terror. I knew from the way Dr. Van Helsing was searching about\n",
      "In a little while the Professor signalled to me, so I got up and joined\n",
      "hand and drew me in: “See!” he said, “here you will be in shelter; and\n",
      "if the wolves do come I can meet them one by one.” He brought in our\n",
      "“Look! Madam Mina, look! look!” I sprang up and stood beside him on the\n",
      "On the cart was a great square chest. My heart leaped as I saw it, for I\n",
      "well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned\n",
      "pursuit. In fear I turned to the Professor; to my consternation,\n",
      "“At least you shall be safe here from _him_!” He took the glasses from\n",
      "“See,” he said, “they come quickly; they are flogging the horses, and\n",
      "galloping as hard as they can.” He paused and went on in a hollow\n",
      "“They are racing for the sunset. We may be too late. God’s will be\n",
      "done!” Down came another blinding rush of driving snow, and the whole\n",
      "“Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow fast, coming up from the\n",
      "south. It must be Quincey and John. Take the glass. Look before the snow\n",
      "blots it all out!” I took it and looked. The two men might be Dr. Seward\n",
      "and Mr. Morris. I knew at all events that neither of them was Jonathan.\n",
      "At the same time I _knew_ that Jonathan was not far off; looking around\n",
      "break-neck speed. One of them I knew was Jonathan, and the other I took,\n",
      "of course, to be Lord Godalming. They, too, were pursuing the party with\n",
      "the cart. When I told the Professor he shouted in glee like a schoolboy,\n",
      "laid his Winchester rifle ready for use against the boulder at the\n",
      "opening of our shelter. “They are all converging,” he said. “When the\n",
      "It was strange to see the snow falling in such heavy flakes close to us,\n",
      "Every instant seemed an age whilst we waited. The wind came now in\n",
      "Closer and closer they drew. The Professor and I crouched down behind\n",
      "All at once two voices shouted out to: “Halt!” One was my Jonathan’s,\n",
      "raised in a high key of passion; the other Mr. Morris’ strong resolute\n",
      "spoken. Instinctively they reined in, and at the instant Lord Godalming\n",
      "and Jonathan dashed up at one side and Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris on the\n",
      "forward; but the four men raised their Winchester rifles, and in an\n",
      "unmistakable way commanded them to stop. At the same moment Dr. Van\n",
      "Helsing and I rose behind the rock and pointed our weapons at them.\n",
      "Seeing that they were surrounded the men tightened their reins and drew\n",
      "The leader, with a quick movement of his rein, threw his horse out in\n",
      "For answer, all four men of our party threw themselves from their horses\n",
      "Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardour of battle must have been\n",
      "In the midst of this I could see that Jonathan on one side of the ring\n",
      "of men, and Quincey on the other, were forcing a way to the cart; it was\n",
      "box, and flung it over the wheel to the ground. In the meantime, Mr.\n",
      "Morris had had to use force to pass through his side of the ring of\n",
      "Szgany. All the time I had been breathlessly watching Jonathan I had,\n",
      "beside Jonathan, who had by now jumped from the cart, I could see that\n",
      "as Jonathan, with desperate energy, attacked one end of the chest,\n",
      "attempting to prize off the lid with his great Kukri knife, he attacked\n",
      "By this time the gypsies, seeing themselves covered by the Winchesters,\n",
      "and at the mercy of Lord Godalming and Dr. Seward, had given in and made\n",
      "shadows of the whole group fell long upon the snow. I saw the Count\n",
      "As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them\n",
      "But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife.\n",
      "moment Mr. Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart.\n",
      "It was like a miracle; but before our very eyes, and almost in the\n",
      "The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone\n",
      "The gypsies, taking us as in some way the cause of the extraordinary\n",
      "Mr. Morris, who had sunk to the ground, leaned on his elbow, holding his\n",
      "flew to him, for the Holy circle did not now keep me back; so did the\n",
      "“I am only too happy to have been of any service! Oh, God!” he cried\n",
      "suddenly, struggling up to a sitting posture and pointing to me, “It was\n",
      "worth for this to die! Look! look!”\n",
      "The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams\n",
      "the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest “Amen” broke from all\n",
      "“Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not\n",
      "more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!”\n",
      "And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a\n",
      "NOTE\n",
      "Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of\n",
      "is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy’s birthday is the same\n",
      "day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the\n",
      "we call him Quincey.\n",
      "In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went\n",
      "When we got home we were talking of the old time--which we could all\n",
      "look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily\n",
      "note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing’s memorandum.\n",
      "We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as\n",
      "proofs of so wild a story. Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with\n",
      "“We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us! This boy will some day\n",
      "JONATHAN HARKER.\n",
      "THE END\n",
      "_There’s More to Follow!_\n",
      "More stories of the sort you like; more, probably, by the author of\n",
      "reputation, in the Authors’ Alphabetical List which you will find\n",
      "It is a _selected_ list; every book in it has achieved a certain\n",
      "The Grosset & Dunlap list is not only the greatest Index of Good\n",
      "Fiction available, it represents in addition a generally accepted\n",
      "Standard of Value. It will pay you to\n",
      "_Look on the Other Side of the Wrapper!_\n",
      "_In case the wrapper is lost write to the publishers for a complete\n",
      "DETECTIVE STORIES BY J. S. FLETCHER\n",
      "May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap’s list\n",
      "THE SECRET OF THE BARBICAN\n",
      "THE ANNEXATION SOCIETY\n",
      "THE WOLVES AND THE LAMB\n",
      "GREEN INK\n",
      "THE KING versus WARGRAVE\n",
      "THE LOST MR. LINTHWAITE\n",
      "THE MILL OF MANY WINDOWS\n",
      "THE HEAVEN-KISSED HILL\n",
      "THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER\n",
      "RAVENSDENE COURT\n",
      "THE RAYNER-SLADE AMALGAMATION\n",
      "THE SAFETY PIN\n",
      "THE SECRET WAY\n",
      "THE VALLEY OF HEADSTRONG MEN\n",
      "_Ask for Complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction_\n",
      "GROSSET & DUNLAP, _Publishers_, NEW YORK\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "# 以下是我使用的模式，用到了还未介绍的功能\n",
    "\n",
    "names = r'(?<!\\.\\s)[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'\n",
    "\n",
    "all_matches(names)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "0318507d",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 调试\n",
    "\n",
    "当你读写文件时，调试可能比较麻烦。如果你使用Jupyter笔记，你可以使用**shell命令 shell commands**进行帮助。例如，要显示文件的前几行，你可以使用命令`!head`："
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 69,
   "id": "cc39942c",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "                                DRACULA\n",
      "\n",
      "                                  _by_\n",
      "\n",
      "                              Bram Stoker\n",
      "\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "!head pg345_cleaned.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1d480c02",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "开头的感叹号`!`表示这是shell命令，不是Python语法的一部分。要显示最后几行，你可以使用`!tail`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 70,
   "id": "bc3741e1",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "\n",
      "_Ask for Complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction_\n",
      "\n",
      "GROSSET & DUNLAP, _Publishers_, NEW YORK\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "!tail pg345_cleaned.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "6874023a",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "当你处理大型文件时，调试可能很困难，因为输出可能太多，难以检查。一个好的调试策略是从部分文件开始，让程序可以运行，然后在整个文件上运行。\n",
    "\n",
    "要创建包含大文件部分的小文件，我们可以再次使用`!head`命令，以及重定向符`>`，这个重定向符表示结果应该写入到指定的文件中，而不是显示在屏幕上。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 71,
   "id": "d4c92501",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "!head pg345_cleaned.txt > pg345_cleaned_10_lines.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "3fc851f8",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "默认情况下， `!head`读取前10行，但它接受可选参数，指定读取的行数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 72,
   "id": "8f6606dd",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "!head -100 pg345_cleaned.txt > pg345_cleaned_100_lines.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "24871c78",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "这个shell命令读取`pg345_cleaned.txt`的前100行，写入`pg345_cleaned_100_lines.txt`文件。\n",
    "\n",
    "注意：shell命令`!head`和`!tail`不是所有操作系统上都存在的命令。如果这些命令无法工作，我们可以用Python编写类似的函数。参见本章末尾的第1个练习。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c842524d",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 术语表\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "- **序列sequence**：一组按顺序排列的值的合集，每个值是由整数索引确定；\n",
    "- **字符character**：字符串的元素，包括字母，数字和符号；\n",
    "- **索引index**：在序列中用于选中元素的整数值，例如字符串中的字符。在Python中索引从`0`开始；\n",
    "- **切片slice**：字符串的一部分，由索引的范围指定；\n",
    "- **空字符串empty string**：不包含任何字符，长度为0的字符串；\n",
    "- **对象object**：一个变量可以指向的事物。对象有自己的类型和值；\n",
    "- **不可变的immutable**：如果一个对象的元素无法被改变，对象是不可变的；\n",
    "- **调用invocation**：方法的调用表达式；\n",
    "- **正则表达式regular expression**：定义搜索模式的字符序列；\n",
    "- **模式pattern**：指定匹配字符串必须符合的规则；\n",
    "- **字符串替换string substitution**：用另一个字符串替换字符串或者部分字符串；\n",
    "- **shell命令 shell command**：shell语言中的语句。shell语言是与操作系统交互的语言。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "4306e765",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 练习"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 73,
   "id": "18bced21",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "Exception reporting mode: Verbose\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "# 这个单元格让Jupyter在出现运行时故障时提供更多调试信息。\n",
    "# 在进行练习前先运行本单元格。\n",
    "\n",
    "%xmode Verbose"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 74,
   "id": "772f5c14",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "download('https://gitee.com/regentsai/Think_Python_3e_CN/blob/master/words.txt');"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "5be97ddc",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "### 询问虚拟助手\n",
    "\n",
    "本章，我们只接触了正则表达式最简单的功能。要了解其他内容，询问虚拟助手，“Python正则表达式中最常见的特殊字符有哪些？”\n",
    "\n",
    "你也可以询问匹配特定类型的模式，例如，询问：\n",
    "\n",
    "- 编写Python正则表达式，匹配有连字符的10位数字电话号码；\n",
    "- 编写Python正则表达式，匹配街道地址，地址由一个数字，街道名，然后是`ST`或`AVE`组成；\n",
    "- 编写Python正则表达式，匹配人名全名，由`Mr`或`Mrs`开始，若干个以大写字母开头的名字，有些名字中可能有连字符；\n",
    "\n",
    "如果你想要看更复杂的例子，尝试询问匹配合法URL的正则表达式。\n",
    "\n",
    "正则表达式通常在字符串引号前添加字母`r`，表示它是原始字符串\"raw string\"。询问虚拟助手，“Python中的原始字符串是什么？”"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 75,
   "id": "8650dec2",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from doctest import run_docstring_examples\n",
    "\n",
    "def run_doctests(func):\n",
    "    run_docstring_examples(func, globals(), name=func.__name__)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "20dcbbb3",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "### 练习\n",
    "\n",
    "看看你能否编写与shell命令`!head`类似的函数。它应该接受要读取的文件名，读取的行数，重定向的文件名。如果第3个参数为`None`，应该显示这些行，而不是将其写入文件。\n",
    "\n",
    "考虑向虚拟助手寻求帮助。如果使用虚拟助手，告诉它不要使用`with`或`try`语句。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 72,
   "id": "75b12538",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "24f6aac3",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "你可以使用以下示例测试函数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 73,
   "id": "9cbc19cd",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "head('pg345_cleaned.txt', 10)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 74,
   "id": "19de7df0",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "head('pg345_cleaned.txt', 100, 'pg345_cleaned_100_lines.txt')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 75,
   "id": "242f7ba6",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "!tail pg345_cleaned_100_lines.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "adb78357",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "### 练习\n",
    "\n",
    "\"Wordle\"是一个在线单词游戏，目标是在6次尝试以内猜出5个字母组成的单词。每次尝试必须也是一个单词，不包括专有名词。\n",
    "\n",
    "每尝试一次，你能知道你给定的哪些字母出现在目标单词中，哪些字母的位置正确。\n",
    "\n",
    "例如，假设目标单词是`MOWER`，你猜测`TRIED`。你能知道`E`出现在单词中，且在正确的位置；`R`出现在单词中，但不在正确的位置；`T,I,D`没有出现在目标单词中。\n",
    "\n",
    "作为另一个例子，假设目标单词是`SPADE`，你猜测`CLERK`。你能知道`E`出现在单词中，但不在正确的位置，其他字母则没有出现在目标中。\n",
    "\n",
    "在单词列表中，有多少单词可能是目标单词？根据这个例子猜测中得到的信息，编写函数，检查一个长度为5的单词是否可能是目标单词。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 76,
   "id": "2a37092e",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "87fdf676",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "你可以使用上一章中的任意函数，例如`uses_any`。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 77,
   "id": "8d19b6ce",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def uses_any(word, letters):\n",
    "    for letter in word.lower():\n",
    "        if letter in letters.lower():\n",
    "            return True\n",
    "    return False"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "63593f1b",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "你可以使用以下循环测试你的函数。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 78,
   "id": "9bbf0b1c",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "for line in open('words.txt'):\n",
    "    word = line.strip()\n",
    "    if len(word) == 5 and check_word(word):\n",
    "        print(word)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "d009cb52",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "### 练习\n",
    "\n",
    "继续之前的练习，假设你猜了`TOTEM`，你能知道`E`依然不在正确的位置，但`M`在正确的位置。还剩多少单词符合条件？"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 79,
   "id": "925c7aa9",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 80,
   "id": "3f658f3a",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c1d0f892",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "### 练习\n",
    "\n",
    "*基督山伯爵*是Alexandre Dumas写的经典小说。然而，在英文翻译版本的介绍中，Umberto Eco承认，这是“有史以来写的最烂的小说之一”。\n",
    "\n",
    "具体而言，他认为“重复使用相同的相容词是无耻的”，尤其是“角色颤抖shudder或者脸色苍白pale”的次数。\n",
    "\n",
    "要看看他的抗议是否合理，让我们计算`pale`相关形式出现的次数，包括`pale`, `pales`, `paled`,`paleness`, `pallor`。使用一个正则表达式，匹配这些单词中的任意一个。\n",
    "\n",
    "作为额外的挑战，确保它不会匹配其他单词，例如`impale`。你可以寻求虚拟助手的帮助。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "742efd98",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "下面的单元格下载古登堡项目提供的小说文本<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184>."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 81,
   "id": "9a74be13",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import os\n",
    "\n",
    "if not os.path.exists('pg1184.txt'):\n",
    "    !wget https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1184/pg1184.txt"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "881c2f99",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "以下单元格删除额外信息，仅保留小说内容。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 82,
   "id": "946c63d2",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def clean_file(input_file, output_file):\n",
    "    reader = open(input_file)\n",
    "    writer = open(output_file, 'w')\n",
    "\n",
    "    for line in reader:\n",
    "        if is_special_line(line):\n",
    "            break\n",
    "\n",
    "    for line in reader:\n",
    "        if is_special_line(line):\n",
    "            break\n",
    "        writer.write(line)\n",
    "        \n",
    "    reader.close()\n",
    "    writer.close()\n",
    "\n",
    "clean_file('pg1184.txt', 'pg1184_cleaned.txt')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 83,
   "id": "08294921",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 84,
   "id": "3eb8f83f",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 85,
   "id": "b6bffe8a",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "# 在这解答"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "7db56337",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "这本书有`223`行包含这些单词，因此Eco的观点也许是正确的。"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 76,
   "id": "e7f6875a",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "!rm -f pg345_* pg1184_* # 删除产生的文件"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "a7f4edf8",
   "metadata": {
    "tags": []
   },
   "source": [
    "[Think Python: 3rd Edition](https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/index.html)\n",
    "\n",
    "Copyright 2024 [Allen B. Downey](https://allendowney.com)\n",
    "\n",
    "Code license: [MIT License](https://mit-license.org/)\n",
    "\n",
    "Text license: [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)"
   ]
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